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Does the ordering of heading tags matter?

 
 

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Question: “Does the ordering of heading tags matter?”

Answer: Google is very good about handling h1s and h2s. While it may not be perfect syntax, you should not worry about it too much if you are unable to change it.
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Nik from London asks: „I'm using a template website (I'm an amateur! - that's OK). The h1 tag appears below the h2 tag in the code. Does the spider still know whats going on?“.

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Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it, we handle h1s and h2s very well. Don't make your entire page h1 or h2 but you would not believe the sort of stuff that people put up on the web. There was a study several years ago that said 40% of webpages had syntax errors and so having one h1 below an h2: I wouldn't sweat it.

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There are so many people who do broken webpages and ugly webpages and pages that are not really html and we still try to process that because there can be good information on those pages.

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So just having some out of order h1s or h2, I wouldn't worry about it.