More than one H1 on a page: good or bad?
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Uploaded by GoogleWebmasterHelp on Mar 5, 2009
On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video.
Erin from south of Boston asked:
More than one H1 on a page: good or bad?
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@tehribo I say that because of the new standards in HTML5. The way the outlining algorithm works, HTML5 pages will be built around having multiple H1s.
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@abelafonte and what would it be?
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I'm sure this is answer would be slightly different now, in 2011
1 month ago 2
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Very straightforward answer. Very clear. Understandable.
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@McSnookerman They have a large user base and they are probably doing a lot of tests and serveys before adding/removing a feature or behaviour
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0:34 So if I understand well, you can have a H1 tag on your left hand and one on your right hand.
4 months ago 4
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Thanks for info about h1
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Great tips, thanks Matt.
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How complicated are the Google algorithms really? They sound pretty advanced sometimes, it feels like a human is looking at the source code.
McSnookerman 2 years ago 12
What about HTML5's outline algorithm which encourages exclusive use of H1? When will Google's indexing take sectioning elements into account? I want to use these now, but don't want to be penalized. I'm afraid that on one hand Google is trumpeting HTML5 in Chrome and Wave but on the search side I get penalized because it hasn't caught up.
cgriego 2 years ago 11