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More than one H1 on a page: good or bad?

 
 

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Question: “Is more than one H1 header on a page good or bad?”

Answer: As long as there is a good reason to have more than one H1 per page it is fine to have them as long as it is still being used scarcely.
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A very short, to the point question from Erin south of Boston. Erin asks “More than on H1 on a page: good or bad?”.

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Well if there's a logical reason to have multiple sections, it's not so bad to have multiple H1s. I would pay attention to overdoing it. If your entire page is H1, that looks pretty cruddy, so don't do all H1 and then you CSS to make it look like regular text because we see people who are competitors complain about that.

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If users ever turn of CSS or the CSS doesn't load it looks really bad so it's OK to have a little bit of H1 here and then maybe there's a two sections on the page and so you maybe have a little bit of H1 here but you really should use it for headers and headings, which is what the intend is. Not to just throw H1 everywhere you can on a page.

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Because I can tell you, if you just throw H1 everywhere on a page, people have tried to abuse that and so our algorithms try to take that into account, so that doesn't really do you much good.

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So I would use it where it makes sense and more sparingly but you can have it multiple times.