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  • January 30, 2016 at 8:54 pm #177941
    MaryC
    Participant

    I'm seeing this warning when I check on my website's SEO.

    I'm new to this and haven't changed anything much out of the box. I have a blog page with posts appearing. Each post's heading with be H1 - as designed in the theme. Is this what's being picked up as too many H1?

    If so, how do I fix that?

    I noticed on the other pages (your basic "about" "services" etc) that Bing's warnings show H1 tags for the website's main page/title AND for the page's own - so there's code there with the website's title as H1 and also the About page's title.

    Confused, and hoping someone can set me straight!

    Thanks.

    http://mcahalane.com
    January 31, 2016 at 4:38 am #177949
    Brad West
    Member

    The direct answer:

    You can turn off the semantic HTML5 page and section headings in your Genesis SEO Settings. Under "Sitewide Settings" you will see "Section Headings," uncheck that.

    The longer answer:

    I wouldn't turn this off. Brian Gardner and company have structured Genesis to serve well laid-out HTML5 documents. Google is able to tell when you are using HTML5 and in that case having multiple sections and headings is no problem.

    Kezz Bracey published a great article about this a few years ago on Tuts+: The Truth About Multiple H1 Tags in the HTML5 Era.

    Matt Cutts himself (head of Google's Webspam team) has said that multiple H1 tags are fine.

    January 31, 2016 at 6:17 am #177948
    Brad West
    Member

    The direct answer:

    You can turn off the semantic HTML5 page and section headings in your Genesis SEO Settings. Under "Sitewide Settings" you will see "Section Headings," uncheck that.

    The longer answer:

    I wouldn't turn this off. Brian Gardner and company have structured Genesis to serve well laid-out HTML5 documents. Google is able to tell when you are using HTML5 and in that case having multiple sections and headings is no problem.

    Kezz Bracey published a great article about this a few years ago on Tuts+: The Truth About Multiple H1 Tags in the HTML5 Era.

    Matt Cutts himself (head of Google's Webspam team) has said that multiple H1 tags are fine.

    January 31, 2016 at 1:39 pm #177974
    MaryC
    Participant

    Thank you, Brad! That is so direct and clear. Can't tell you how wonderful it is to have that so simply spelled out.

    One of the reasons I picked a Studiopress theme was the built-in smarts. So I was surprised to start reading that things baked in were somehow problematic. Your response reassured me they weren't.

    Thank you!

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