On-page SEO: Multiple H1 Elements Yea or Nay?

January 9, 2012 By 36 Comments

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Here’s an interesting email I received concerning on-page SEO html structure and its effect on search results:

I finally have a minute to reach out. We haven’t spoken since you left your comment on my site. I haven’t had a chance to review the hRecipe plug in [sic] and all the updates you made. Could you please advise if the layout now has the option of tagging the <post type> titles and subtitles to H1?

-Grace

After a few back and forth emails concerning whether hRecipe plugin for WordPress should, by default, use the h1 element for recipe titles, we turned to Google.

Find out what Google says…

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Destroy Websites for Fun and Profit! (SEO backlinking, of course)

January 3, 2012 By 21 Comments

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It turns out I have a long time interest in structured content, dating back to graduate school and projects dealing with a lot of raw data. Describing data requires using metadata, and from there it’s not really a big jump to the semantic web and rich snippets.

A current project involves describing projects using metadata. Sounds self-referential, no? It’s not, really, because context matters.

One such metadata specification is Description of a Project, aka DOAP. While I’m not a big fan of the acronym, the concept is sound.

Unfortunately, the main website has been badly compromised. Really badly. I have screenshots.

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