About H Tags? how many can we use in an article?

Hello all,

So i have a pillar post with lots of subtopics...and i have been using the h3 on each topic. I have like 30 H3 tags - ive use those SEO site analyzers and on the analisys it said that i have to much H3 Tags and that it can be considered Spam

I would like to know how many H tags can we use?

Can someone help me out on this please?

thanks

As many as you want. As long as each is a non-spammy title and has body text under it, why would you worry about it?

A lot of SEO site analysers are a waste of time. If you have that much content that 30 h3 tags are appropriate, then use 30 h3 tags.

Read these:
https://yoast.com/headings-use/
http://static.googleusercontent.com.../search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf (Page 20)

Conor- thanks for the links, useful information. So is it preferable to use only H1 tags for page titles or headers? like my themes code framework's H1 tag is a pretty big font, would using H2 instead(in place of H1) reflect poorly on pages?

I think i did that on some posts of mine, cuz i was lazy to change it, even though it would take like 5 seconds to push the changes.

PeakDaddySawn said:

Conor- thanks for the links, useful information. So is it preferable to use only H1 tags for page titles or headers? like my themes code framework's H1 tag is a pretty big font, would using H2 instead(in place of H1) reflect poorly on pages?

I think i did that on some posts of mine, cuz i was lazy to change it, even though it would take like 5 seconds to push the changes.

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Usually yes, H1 is left for the page title/header. If it's a big font you can easily make it smaller.. Inspect the page code, check if the H1 title has a custom id or class and add a custom css to it using !important

example:
.title-class {font-size: 20px!important}
#title-id {font-size: 20px!important}

For H2 I'd say a couple per page is good. H3 tags can be as many as you want, as it was previously said. As long as it's a title of some content. If you have a list of H3 titles one after another, it may look a bit unnatural, so make sure there is relevant content below each one.

PeakDaddySawn said:

Conor- thanks for the links, useful information. So is it preferable to use only H1 tags for page titles or headers? like my themes code framework's H1 tag is a pretty big font, would using H2 instead(in place of H1) reflect poorly on pages?

I think i did that on some posts of mine, cuz i was lazy to change it, even though it would take like 5 seconds to push the changes.

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I've heard mixed theories about that.

Personally, I like to have one h1 tag for the main site title, a few h2 tags for main headings, and h3 tags for subheadings.