H1 - H2 - H3 Tags

How do I use them?

[richardtk]

i have a small site that i want to grow the traffic on.

At present all my copy is made up of jpg images. I know i must change this to climb the seach engine rankings. I understand that I should use h1 and h2 tags etc for text and also bold and strong. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how important these are and the correct way to use them.

my site is for my wedding video service so will have very few key search words.

[Leosghost]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld richardtk ..you'll be amazed at how much "copy" you can get around your sites subject and still get all your images in ( at least some of them ..page load times ..remember!) ...
There is a library here to look around and some threads that discuss exactly what you want ..( I cant remember any of the links ) however someone ..<encyclo I know you are here ..just saw you post :)> with better search skills than mine here will point you in the right direction ..

[richardtk]

Leosghost thanks for that, i think you might have miss understood what i meant. I have my copy already but its displyed on my site for design reasons (fonts etc_ using jpg and gifs, rather than just typing it up as pure html txt. I want to change this so A. The site loads faster and B. So its more SEO friendly and gets listed higher. I thought that the h1, h2 tags we read by SE's and therefore were important, but i'm just un-sure how to use them correctly.?

[trillianjedi]

From the horses mouth:-

[w3c.org...]

General principle is the H1 tag is the parent heading, H2 and H3 are sub and sub-sub headings all the way up to H6. So a simple layout might look like this:-

<h1>All about widgets</h1>

A page all about widgets.

<h2>Blue Widgets</h2>

Blue widgets are way cool ;-)

<h3>Shiny Blue Widgets</h3>

Shiny and way cool ;-)

<h3>Vibrating Blue Widgets</h3>

Oo-er!

<h2>Red Widgets</h2>

etc.....

Use the H1 tag only once per page - similar to title, although there are some schools of thought (an Over-Optimisation-Penalty) which would suggest you vary H1 tag, title and anchor-text:-

[webmasterworld.com...]

Make sure you validate by running what you build through a W3C validator:-

[validator.w3.org...]

You can style your H tags any way you like with CSS:-

[webmasterworld.com...]

TJ

[richardtk]

hay thanks for the info.. more reading i guess

[longen]

>>(an Over-Optimisation-Penalty) which would suggest you vary H1 tag, title and anchor-text

I have hundreds of pages, containing images, with little text, i use the same keyword-1 keyword-2 in the Anchor text, Title, H1, and Alt tag. It would be too difficult, and time consuming to vary them, especially with thousands more to do.