Is an empty <h1> tag bad?

[rschmitz]

I don't like my h1 tag being the same name as my title. If I were to go into my post template and rip it out, and make a new <h1> tag in each post, I notice that it shows that I have an empty h1 tag along with the new h1 tag. Is this bad for SEO, and if it is, is there a way to completely remove the old <h1> code? Thanks!

 

[rschmitz]

Example
Title: I love Lady Bugs
<h1>
<h1> Lady Bugs are Awesome
<p> blah blah blah

 

[SkyrocketSEO]

But you;re earning $500/day with Amazon using siloed sites and what now, how come you don;t know what to do about H1?

 

[rschmitz]

But you;re earning $500/day with Amazon using siloed sites and what now, how come you don;t know what to do about H1?

What is your point? Random dude with SEO in your name

 

[SkyrocketSEO]

What is your point? Random dude with SEO in your name

Nothin', just wanted to see if you;re gonna get aggressive once I tell you that you;re full of shit

 

[rschmitz]

Nothin', just wanted to see if you;re gonna get aggressive once I tell you that you;re full of shit

lol just as I suspected, no point, your just trolling.

 

[Conor]

It's messy, imo. But I have yet to see anything that says it will give you less "Google points" than you'd normally get.

 

[rob1977]

I'm assuming it's templated design like WordPress or something.

Just modify the code to remove the errant tags.

 

[psychosimo]

lol why would you leave it blank ?? H1 is part of the onpage optimisation so you should use it

 

[ficfroc]

Get a developper to remove the issue from your template, you don't want to take any "risk"

 

[ttrox]

It's obviously wrong as you never know how the SE's are going to parse the data. You should never leave any room for misunderstandings.

 

[Automated]

Probably wont make much of a difference, but should be a simple fix if its a wordpress template.

 

[rschmitz]

Thanks for the replies everyone. Yes, I guess I'm going to need to hire a programmer

Its a wordpress template, I can't find any literature which tells me how to get rid of it from the code though. Definitely not my field of expertise

 

[imsolulu]

This is a really quick job, a 5$ dollar job , There is like one line to comment in the php source code of the template , one in the single.php and another one for the static pages if you are using any.

And I agree with the previous posters, don't take a risk , the googlebot shows sometimes some ackward results even whith a properly formated html code.

 

[macdonjo3]

But you;re earning $500/day with Amazon using siloed sites and what now, how come you don;t know what to do about H1?

No 500 rupees you random dude with SEO in your name

 

[imsolulu]

Sometimes the developpers of the theme would be very happy to help you out if you are a returning customer. It won't take them more than 5 minutes.

 

[Techxan]

It will not make that much difference, It's not injecting any keywords into the algorithm. Fix it if you can, or if it's the last thing you can find to fix.

Otherwise, ignore it.

 

[thejake]

just pop

h1 {display:none;}

into the style.css for the theme, you can do that in the theme editor

 

[ficfroc]

just pop

h1 {display:none;}

into the style.css for the theme, you can do that in the theme editor

The display none, is for users not targetted toward the search engines bots. The bots will still be able to see it withing the code and parse it.

 

[thejake]

The display none, is for users not targetted toward the search engines bots. The bots will still be able to see it withing the code and parse it.

Is it 2010 where you are?