Can someone check this theme for me and let me know how good /bad it is for SEO?

How many is too many H1 headings?

For a start, that theme (at least in the demo form) is invalid. For example, there’s no alt attribute on the H1 image link in the header. Arguably the most important link on the site and Google won’t be able to ‘see’ it! It’s missing closing tags and uses old, deprecated markup. Bleurgh!

Esmi, just a question about what you said above re: that the HI image link in the header is arguably the most important link on the site but “invisible” to Google without an Alt attribute. In my site, I inserted the header image as a CSS background image and made it a link back to the homepage–my research into CSS has told me that you can’t attach Alt attributes with it. Does this mean that my site is “invisible” to Google and will therefore suffer for SEO purposes?, or have i misunderstood your post?

I don’t think my link will be of any extra assistance for this question but just in case here it is

oops, for some reason my link didn’t show

yo, having problems inserting links, maybe should give up

<a href="https://www.thelimegreenscream.com">

Does this mean that my site is “invisible” to Google and will therefore suffer for SEO purposes?

The whole site isn’t invisible but it will lack an H1 heading from Google’s perspective – which is a shame as the weighting on an H1 should be fairly good.

The way to approach this using CSS is to allow WP to render a plain text H1 site name. Then, absolutely position your logo image over the text rather than using it as a background under the text.

https://theartificers.co.uk/
and
https://accessites.org

both use this technique. Probably easier for you to have a look at them rather than try explaining it. ??

Esmi, I think I get what you’re saying and I actually think that my site already is doing what the other sites you showed me are doing–I entered a title in the dashboard just moved it off to the side using text-indent: -9999px (and ontop of that there’s my background image) so I’m assuming the title underneath and pushed off screen will still be picked up by search engines

However, one thing you wrote causes me confusion. You say to “absolutely position” the logo over the text. “Position: absolute” is a CSS command (I believe) but neither of those sites use it in their CSS as far as I can see

Can you clarify whether you were using “absolutely position” in the sense of recommending it as a CSS command, or were you just using those words in their ordinary non-css meaning

thanks

I’m assuming the title underneath and pushed off screen will still be picked up by search engines

Sounds like it, yes.

“Position: absolute” is a CSS command (I believe) but neither of those sites use it in their CSS as far as I can see

It’s simply another approach instead of text-indent: -9999px with one added bonus. On the sites above, if you switch images off in your browser, you’ll immediately see the plain header text. On the sites that use text-indent: -9999px, you won’t see anything with images disabled but CSS enabled.

Hi Esmi,

Can you elaborate on how the code is old and decrepit? THings like missing alt attribute and closing tags are fine, I can fix those. But poor code, I wouldn′t know what to look at. If you could elaborate a bit that′d be very helpful. Let me know how bad ??

Thanks!

Cheers,
Sam