Thank you all for your help. I did try to use a place holder and put the code in but that didn't work. I have an add on to Firefox installed that is an SEO doctor and it says "H1 tag should be present exactly once on the page and contain keywords you want to optimize for." Since one response said that google doesn't see the H1 different than large fonts! I think that is what I will do create the words I want to optimize for in a H1 size font and see if I can get indexed that way. Right now, my page doesn't show up at all...so I guess I have some work to do.
Thank you all for your responses, I appreciate the input.
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