How to Fix Pages that don’t Have an H1 Heading
How to Fix Pages that don’t Have an H1 Heading Heading 1 is basically the biggest heading of any web page. There’s H1 H2 H3, all the way down to H6. When you open up a page, typically the biggest text that you see is going to be the H1.
It’s important to have H1 on every page so that you can essentially tell Google ‘Hey, this is what this page is about’.
You also use that space typically to insert whatever keywords would be most appropriate for that page. So if you get pages that are reported as not having H1 headings, you want to go to that page and add one right away.
In my case, I’m gonna look at this demo site and I’m looking at the blog under News and categories filter for blog articles.
Let’s take a look at a blog page. Because these often are the usual pages that are reported to not have the H1 heading.
Very often, it depends on the way a website is developed but whatever the biggest text that you see is going to be the H1 tag.
Let’s say you don’t have a header like that in your blog. It looks more like this and in this case, the highlighted text would probably be the H1 heading.
If you have a page that says it does not have an H1 heading, you want to go to that page and click the Edit Post button.
Now we’re looking at WordPress as an editor for that particular blog post. Typically, the H1 in this depends on how your developer built the site but it’s usually the name of that blog that’s going to be used as the H1 heading.
But if it’s not, what you can do is scroll down to where you have the content and you can click on any block of content that you see.
So with the ‘TECHNOLOGY NEWS’ text, you can see if we click on this that it just looks like a regular text. If we click on the text below it, we can see it’s H2. So sometimes we can convert that to H1.
Usually, you can, but in this case, the site was built so that you can only select H2 through four for the content area within a site.
If you have this issue and you have pages that don’t show an H1 heading and you don’t have the ability to change H2 or H3 headings to an H1, then you’re going to want to contact the person or company that built your site and tell them that you need H1 on each page.
Now sometimes there are pages that are not particularly important to be ranked such as your contact page, directions, or pages where they’re not going to have much content.
You’re not expecting to attract users by just searching for keywords. If those pages don’t have an H1 heading, it’s not the end of the world. If you have a website with thousands of pages and only 12 of them don’t have H1, that’s probably okay.
But if you have a website with say 20 pages and five of them don’t have H1, that’s probably something you would want to look into.
I would say if you ever have anything here more than just a couple of pages without the H1 heading, that’s something that you probably want to look into and send an email to the person/company that developed your website.
Say “Hey, these pages don’t have H1. Can you adjust that?”
You want to act on this especially if it’s an important page like your homepage, services pages, or any other crucial pages on your site. You want to have an H1 heading on these pages.