Improving Your Headers

Organizing your site is one of the best ways that you can make it more presentable not only to the reader, but also to the search engines that would archive them. And there are plenty of ways that you can do to easily organize your site’s pages. One particular strategy that you can implement for this one is making good use of your header tags.

For those not familiar, header tags are the bits of code that denote headings and subheads in your pages. The header tags in HTML range from <h1> to <h6>, with <h1 having the largest size and <h6> being the smallest.

Most people don’t usually use the header tags for defining the sections of the page. This is due to the fact that there is few customization options for formatting these tags. Instead, designers would often resort to using the <p> and <font> tags, which are more flexible format-wise.

However, there is actually plenty of advantages when using the header tags in putting up your section headers. For one, it would be easier for you to keep track of your page’s sections this way. And it would be easier for search engines to follow sections of your page, since header tags are tracked distinctly from the supporting content.

In order to make good use of header tags, here are some neat tips that you can follow.

First thing that you need to remember is that you don’t actually need to use everything up to the <h6> tag. In fact, it would be better if you use only up to the <h3> tag. And you also do need to limit the amount of section and subsection heads that you put per page. A single <h1> tag, preferably on the main title of your page content, and 1-2 <h2> tags will often be enough. For further subheads, use only <h3>.

Since, as have been said, header tags are tracked distinctively by search engines, you can use them to get your keywords noticed. Remember though that you need to put in your keywords neatly in order to fit in with your head titles and not feel like a blatant attempt in making your keywords prominent. Also, it would be a good idea if you keep your headings as short as possible. As have always been a reminder, avoid putting in too many keywords in your headings.

Remember that your header and the contents that it precedes should be relevant to each other. It would be better if you can work out the header to be sort of a descriptive introduction to the contents that follow. This, in turn, will make it easier for your reader to follow your content.

And if you are really concerned on the appearance of your header, here’s what you can do. You can use CSS to put in designs to your headers. This might be a bit more tedious, since you have to write in new code for the stylesheets, but you will definitely like the outcome.

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