Two H1 tags on One Page - Matt Cutts says 'Yes'

[peter_ww]

Matt Cutts just posted a video on this at [youtube.com...] which also prompted me to review my h1 assumptions for drupal themes, but in the end I still think just one h1 tag is correct.

reference our earlier thread - [webmasterworld.com...]

[edited by: tedster at 6:45 pm (utc) on Mar. 20, 2009]

[tedster]

Hello Peter, and welcome to the forums.

Thanks for the link to Matt's video - it lines up with what I've noticed out in the wild.

Even though Matt say s it's "OK" to use more than one, I'm still a big fan of using only one H1 element. If it seems like two are really required, I almost always make that content into two pages. Or if the content is too thin to support two pages resonably, I'll figure out a single over-arching headline that can be the H1 to support multiple H2 tags.

I find that approach also "packages" the semantic signals more effectively. That's kind of the way I understand websites, pages, and even code. They are all ways of "packaging" data and information, and we are all packagers.