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Everything I read about SEO always lists the use of keywords in Heading text (tagged by H1, H2, etc) as one of the components of effective SEO. Xara does not seem to use Heading Tags in their pages as far as I can see. Does anyone know if this has a demonstrable effect on SEO results for websites created in Xara?
Hi gophigure2
The lack of Hx tags should have an effect on SEO BUT the difference over text that is simply large and bold is so slight that one would have a hard time proving it.
Could you be more vague, Drwyd? :rolleyes: DOES IT OR DOESN'T IT???
There was more but I cut it. It sounded like I was trashing Xara. :eek:
Yes it does help BUT if I was in a situation where the target market was so competitive that I needed to squeeze that extra 0.01% then I would hand coding everything.
In a typical Xara built site the Hx tags would be at the bottom of a very long list :D
H1 etc can be added to a Xara produced site if you really think it important - http://board.xara-users.info/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=394
Rather than quote or paraphrase the questionable information from a so called SEO expert, can anyone quote information from a reputable Search Engine business that states they look for and rank sites by the use of H tags?
From Google but it may well be out of date by now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR5itZlq8sk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VM
SEO is in a constant state of flux, a kind of arms race, between the search engines and the "black hat" SEOs. As soon as the search engines find a way of removing low quality sites and pages from their listings the black hats find a way to crowbar them back in again. Rinse and repeat.
Hx tags were abused in the past and their importance as relevance signals has been diminished.
That made me smile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Soquili
Paul it made me smile as well.
Drwyd it is interesting that Matt Cutts never actually said the H tags would help, he says that multiple tags or H2 before H1 would not hurt. However over use of H tags will hurt.
I know that many will still think that he may have indicated that the tags will help. However as beauty is in the eye of the beholder it is sometimes best to turn a blind eye to the view and concentrate on listening to the words.
well i am also agree with the above user,s statement that "The lack of Hx tags should have an effect on SEO"
i did a lot of work on it but each time i face this ...
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The only people that can give a definitive answer are the search engine creators themselves and they are not going to give away any secrets that may help the black hats. The best we can do is listen to best guesses of the number crunching statisticians.
In a Xara built site I just don't think they are worth the effort.
Statistics have shown that some weight is given to H1 tags although not much. You also may want to consider that creating H1 tags that are keyword rich but too much like the title and anchored heavily in the content may be seen as a bit spammy, and in fact not help at all.
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