Wordpress and H1 tags?

Mark M · 6 May 2011 at 13:02

Im using a wordpress site and there arent any H1 tags on any of the pages. The page name goes in as an H2 tag?

Am I missing something obvious as I cant see a way to change it to H1?

Thanks

gord · 6 May 2011 at 13:22

It will be set in your theme template files.

Is it on posts or pages? Either way, if you are using default templates it could be in single.php or the other one I can't remember.

Mark M · 6 May 2011 at 13:31

Thanks, any ideas what to look out for and perhaps in what files?

gord · 6 May 2011 at 14:15

Are you using wordpress.com or the downloaded from .org?

I'm not sure about the .com version, but if you installed it yourself something like http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/single_post_title is in there somewhere, and it's wrapped in a H2 tag. All you need to do is swap it to H1 and your done.

simisker · 6 May 2011 at 14:21

Is it perhaps being used for the logo/masthead in header.php?

Mark M · 6 May 2011 at 14:24

Gord, its an installed version on our own web space but will have a look through the link you posted and see if I can work it out.

Here is the site http://www.mmassociates.co.uk/ its a modified twentyten theme.

fini · 6 May 2011 at 14:29

gord said:
It will be set in your theme template files.

Is it on posts or pages? Either way, if you are using default templates it could be in single.php or the other one I can't remember.

The other one is page.php

Under theme click edit, choose either file, find h2 and change to h1.

Mark M · 6 May 2011 at 14:35

Page.php it was! Thanks for the help.

More SEO improvements on the way!!

3dcandy · 6 May 2011 at 20:58

plugins are your friend...
google xml sitemaps
seo friendly images
etc.

Mark M · 9 May 2011 at 10:40

Thanks for the 2 plugins 3dc, got them installed and hopefully climbing the rankings!

3dcandy · 9 May 2011 at 10:47

excellent, xml sitemaps will help your google rankings, give it a couple of weeks to work it's magic.

Mark M · 9 May 2011 at 10:56

Have you tried the all in one seo WP pack? Seems to be getting some good reviews on the WP site?

3dcandy · 9 May 2011 at 11:10

I do use all-in-one seo. Seems ok, but rewrites a lot of things. Had an issue with TwentyTen to start off, but that's been fixed. Seems to slow down sites a tad, but I use w3 Total Cache aswell so altogether it seems ok.

Mark M · 9 May 2011 at 11:10

Thanks, will give it a go and see how I get on with it.

uniQ · 9 May 2011 at 21:48

All in One SEO is good if you wan't an out of box solution. However I prefer Greg's High Performance Plugin as it offers a huge amount of customisations.

Agree with the SEO friendly images and xml sitemap plugins though.

3dcandy · 10 May 2011 at 10:13

w3 total cache was updated today, seems to make a big difference. Now has CloudFlare support and Google Pagespeed API support. I'm currently looking at it on a few sites of mine...