Do lack of Heading Tags (H1, etc) affect SEO results?

**gophigure2** · 06 October 2011, 03:35 PM

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?

**Drwyd** · 06 October 2011, 05:17 PM

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.

**gwpriester** · 06 October 2011, 06:25 PM

Could you be more vague, Drwyd?

DOES IT OR DOESN'T IT???

**Drwyd** · 06 October 2011, 07:36 PM

There was more but I cut it. It sounded like I was trashing Xara.

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

**zaphodeist** · 06 October 2011, 07:48 PM

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

**Soquili** · 06 October 2011, 09:15 PM

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?