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When I was writing my last post, I figured it would be cool to start using sub headings to make it easier for people to read my longer blog posts. That’s when I remembered about how HTML header tags were actually a pretty big factor in terms of SEO. So, I opened up my page source to see what kinds of tags I was using, and I wasn’t too impressed.

Basically, I had ‘h1′ for my page title on individual pages (perfect), and ‘h2′ for my block headings (a bit strange…), and that was it!

I googled around for some information about proper HTML header tag structure, but really all I could find was that they were simply used in order of importance. There doesn’t seem to be any “standard” way of using them. This surprises me given that they are pretty important overall. I would assume there would be an optimal structure out there (or maybe I just didn’t find it :P)

So with a little bit of tweaking, I was able to make a few changes (although for now my css skills are hindering the completion of all my plans), but at least now I can use those sub headings, see;

Proper Blog HTML Header Tag Structure is important for SEO

Well, it’s true! Haha that was a test, but I think it will look nice and help readibility. (How’s the orange? :P)

Eventually, with a little help from some css wizards, this is the HTML header tag structure I would like to eventually obtain:

Main Page:
H1 –> Site Title, Site Slogan
H2 –> Blog Post Titles
H3 –> Post Sub-Headings
H4 –> Blog Post Tags
H5 –> Block Titles

Content Pages:
H1 –> Content Page Title
H2 –> Site Title, Site Slogan
H3 –> Post Sub-Headings
H4 –> Blog Post Tags
H5 –> Block Titles

Not sure if this is entirely possible yet, but it’s my general idea.

So, how do you use html header tags on your blog or website?
Do you even think it’s that important?

Comment and let me know what you think!

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