My site has multiple H1's, one in the logo image and one as a header. Is there any official stance from the search engines on this?
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In doing some research on this issue, I came across this blog post which seems to suggest it certainly will be a trigger to search engines.
http://www.seounique.com/blog/multiple-h1-tags-triggers-google-penalty/
Could be a false positive on his specific case, but I was wondering what the community thought.
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks mj,
I did decide to remove the H1s from the logo image, as I agree with your thoughts that it just dilutes the "H1 juice" anyways, even if its not a penalty of any kind. Thanks!
Jim
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I haven't read the article and I'm not sure you'll get a 'penalty' for multipe H1 tags. However, I always ensure that I have just one H1 on each page. This is more because I do not want to dilute the H1 content, so I decide on the absolute top target/s for the page and give 100% of the H1 juice to that. By the same token, I would not have a 10 word H1 either because each one of those words is only getting approx. 10% of the value. Some off-the shelf web-design packages (such as Magento, it seems) automatically place H1 tags around header images. Wasted - get rid of them and get a keyword rich H1 on the page.
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