SEO Header Tags
July 21st, 2008Header tags are an effective way to communicate to the search engines and readers what a page is about. They convey the importance of the text inside of the header tag. Often times, the header tags are not in the proper order. This is how a header tag would appear in the page.
<h1>Header</h1> — The Theme Of The Page
<h2>Header</h2> — Main Sub Sections Of <h1>
<h3>Header Text</h3> — Sub Sections Of <h2>
The <h1> header tag is the largest font. The <h2> tag is smaller than the <h1> tag but larger than the <h3> tag and so on to <h6>. However, the font size of each header tag can be easily adjusted with css making it possible for all headers to appear the same size: