I wanted to write a quick post about using H1 tags. Many people who create websites seem to overlook the use of H1 tags. Overlooking H1 tags is a mistake. The H1 tag helps Google to identify what the post is about.
Think of the H1 tag as a thesis statement on a research paper. A well written thesis statement tells the reader precisely what the paper is about. Well, and H1 tag is not exactly a thesis statement; however, the H1 tag does serve the purpose of telling little precisely what the article, or post, is mainly about.
Google then uses the H1 tag to kind of categorize your post and make decision about how to rank the post. Now, for those of you who are also search engine optimization experts, to not get me wrong. I fully realize that my explanation of H1 tags is rather simplistic. My purpose here is to enlighten those who are new to website development to not overlook the use of H1 tags because of their importance in the Google algorithm.
In fact, if you do virtually nothing else in the area of on page optimization, you should at least use H1 tags.
I will be writing more posts about different aspects of search engine optimization. Check back often…
Dr. Fabio Moro
