Edit H1 Tags

  • Folks, I know very little about coding, and I’d like to edit the H1 tags on my website. Do I do it thru my WP Dashboard? If not, what’s an easy way for me to do that?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    What do you mean by “edit the H1 tags”?

    Thread Starter Joe Wood

    (@joe-wood)

    My old site was recently put on WP and the deveopers didn’t include any SEO, so I need to start putting revelant H1 tags and my important pages. For instance my homepage’s H1 is ‘patio’ and it should be something like “Beautiful garden, landscape, and patio structures”

    Someone told me this, I don’t even know where to look at that H1 tag on my homepage.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    If you want to change page titles, etc., use an SEO plugin like Yoast SEO or another SEO plugin.

    Thread Starter Joe Wood

    (@joe-wood)

    Hey Steve, someone who’s been helping me with this said you can’t edit H1 tags with yoast, is he wrong?

    “Yoast is certainly not a way to add <h1> tags. Yost allows you to add <title> tags. That’s very different.

    The H1 tags live inside your content, and the Title tags are metadata that exist in the <head> section of the page.”

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    You don’t “add H1 tags”. Your theme sets certain fields on your page (usually site title or post title) as H1s. You use CSS to style them. If you don’t like a post’s title, edit the post and change it.

    Thread Starter Joe Wood

    (@joe-wood)

    yeah I’m confused Steve. For instance my Kits page’s H1 is ‘Kits’.
    https://woodsshop.com/kits/

    don’t I want to make that more discriptive then ‘kits’?? That’s what I’m trying to learn how to do.

    The H! is an HTML element that is part of your theme makeup. The only way to change it is by editing the theme. For SEO You should never have more than 1 H1 tag per page. If you are going to modify your theme you need to do it in a child theme. If you modify the original theme your changes will probably be overwritten once the theme updates. If you are using an FSE theme and the new site editor you can simply open it and go to template parts and make the changes in it.

    Thread Starter Joe Wood

    (@joe-wood)

    Can anyone simply explain how I can Edit the one H1 tag I find for each of my pages? It seems like it should be easy enough, if you know how to.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Can you provide a screen shot showing the tag you want to modify and how you want it modified?

    Thread Starter Joe Wood

    (@joe-wood)

    Like I said earlier-

    For instance my homepage’s H1 is ‘patio’ https://woodsshop.com/
    and it should be something like “Beautiful garden, landscape, and patio structures”

    Someone told me this, I don’t even know where to look at that H1 tag on my homepage.

    Thread Starter Joe Wood

    (@joe-wood)

    Darn, someone who’s also trying to help me with this showed me this, edit it with the WPBakery page builder – https://share.vidyard.com/watch/JwmcpGoyoQSZJRhgeJiSEQ
    I tried it, but the tag I edited, that text showed up in the navigation bar!

    he said-
    I see what is happening. So I went in and updated the Kits H1. When I saved and went out to the front-end, I didn’t see the change and that is due to caching.
    I then hit CTRL + SHIFT + R while on page in Chrome, to clear the page cache. This made the new title appear.

    Surely enough, this stupid page builder (Sorry about that ?? ) updates the navigation item based on the new title.
    So I had to go into Appearance > Menus, select the Main menu, find the “Kits” menu-item and change the navigation label back to “Kits”.

    It’s a bit of a workaround, but that way you can handle it.`

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    the <h1> on your page is Creative Designs – Fine Materials – Quality Craftsmanship, the page title. I don’t think you quite understand what HEADING tag is.

    What are you trying to accomplish? Please talk in terms of results, not using H1 at all.

    When you say H1 are you thinking “keywords”?

    Thread Starter Joe Wood

    (@joe-wood)

    Sorry, I’m a creative right brained person and all this code tech talk makes my head swim. Even looking at a pages code does the same.

    I’ve been reading that the H1 is the first thing the search engines see, and should have the main keywords / a good discription, for that page. My site needs some good SEO, and I’m trying to learn how to help out,

    All the H tags are header tags. H1,H2,H3,H4,H5 the lower the number the more important it is in SEO. You should have only one H1 tag on your site. You have an h1 on your page at this statement <h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Creative Designs – Fine Materials – Quality Craftsmanship</span></h1>. By putting this statement as H1 you are telling the search engines that it’s the most important header on your site and it should carry more weight than other headers. Search look at hundreds of things about your site. It’s probably not the first thing that is looked at but it is important. I think the site title is more important because google generally uses it as the search header.

    The only question you should ask yourself is (does this statement describe what my site is about). If it does you are good.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by mrtom414.
    Thread Starter Joe Wood

    (@joe-wood)

    So each page doesn’t have a unique H1, telling the search engines what the page is about??

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