Stallion SEO WordPress Theme Support

Search Engine Optimization of Headers, H1, H2, H3...

There’s no hard rules on the exact number and ratio of headers to use because the larger an article more scope for header usage, you wouldn’t add 10 different headers (various H*s) to a 250 word post for example, but 10 headers for a large 3,000 word article might work. Everey page is different basically.

Through SEO research I work under these understandings and loose rules.

There will be a finite amount of SEO benefit available from any SEO important part of a page/code and this includes headers which can sometimes mean more is less.

It’s believed H1 is more important than H2 and so on.

I’ll use this site as examples.

Stallion covers the H1 automatically because it’s so important.

On the home page and unimportant dated archives the name of the site is within a H1 header “Stallion WordPress SEO Theme”.
On categories, tags and search results the name of the category, tag or search phrase is within the H1 header.
On posts and pages the title of the post/page is within the H1 header, so this post the H1 is “Stallion SEO WordPress Theme Support”.
Since I’m writing a comment and with the Stallion theme comments can generate their own pages the comment page will have a H1 that includes the title of the comment (in this case “Search Engine Optimization of Headers, H1, H2, H3…”) and some of the comments text.

So H1 wise Stallion covers H1 needs as long as you keep SEO in mind when naming your site, categories, tags, posts and pages.

If you decide to add more H1 headers to posts/pages assume the words within all the H1 headers shares the H1 benefit, basically whatever you add to your manually added H1s is added the Stallion H1. Take this page with title “Stallion SEO WordPress Theme Support” that’s 5 keywords, meaning the H1 benefit is shared over those 5 keywords, each receive one fifth the H1 SEO benefit. If I added more H1 headers say “Stallion Support” and “Stallion SEO Help” we now have 10 keywords within H1 headers.

I’ve not been able to conclusively test how the benefit is shared when a keywords is repeated, in the above 3 H1 headers there’s 10 keywords, but only 6 are unique keywords. There’s the argument Google takes into account what a user sees, so in this case a user sees 10 keywords within H1 headers and so the benefit should be shared in tenths and since the keywords Stallion is used 3 times it should gain three tenths of the H1 SEO benefit. I don’t know for sure that this is how it works, but it is how Google works. If it works the other way each word gains 1/6th of the SEO benefit.

On the home page and categories, tags etc… the H2 includes the title of the posts and pages linked to. If your archives have 10 posts you’ll have 10 sets of H2s. Hmm, that just gave me a good idea for improved SEO on archives, currently there’s no H3 and H4 usage on archive pages, would makes sense to have something like say two H2s, four H3s, four H4s and more than 10 posts make them H5s. I’ll have to code that in for the next update.

Stallion doesn’t use H2s automatically on posts and pages, they are left for the user to generate them manually so you can add more related key phrases. Reason for this is there’s a limited number of useful phrases to grab from a post automatically, it’s reasonable to assume your title is going to be SEO’d but not reasonable to assume the first 5 words of a post say is keywords.

On posts and pages depending on the setup and use of supported plugins there’s a splattering on H3s and H4s repeating the title of the post to reinforce the keywords within the title. For example the comment areas and the related posts plugins I’ve SEO’d use H3 and H4 headers.

All Stallion header use will use the posts/page title so it adds to the SEO of the page as long as your posts/pages titles are built with SEO in mind. If you call your posts “What I did on Saturday” when it’s about how you rebuilt a PC from scratch don’t expect to rank well for SERPs like “How to Rebuild a PC in 24 Hours”.

Generally speaking header usage should be something like:

One H1, one or two H2s, whatever works for H3+

You’ll note on this page there’s the title of the post in the Stallion H1, Stallion comment H3, Stallion comment H4 and the related articles plugin H3 with a manually added H2 with content “Stallion Theme Tutorials and Features”. Most of my pages are built like this if I remember to add the H2 (I get lazy ).

As I said above assume the benefit is shared over the number of words used, so it doesn’t matter if you have one H1 header with 10 keywords or ten H1 headers with one keyword each, same for H2, H3…

David

Stallion SEO Theme Support

Aweber Optin Form Code

The Aweber code is poorly designed I’m afraid, had this sort of problem myself and the solution is as you’ve found rewriting the code or pick an Aweber form that works with your colour scheme: like I had to do with this site, if you use the “Stallion Colour Switcher” (for testing the Stallion colours) on the right menu you will see my Aweber form text colour changes!

Without seeing the site can’t be sure what the formatting issues are, but guessing it’s related to floats, the Aweber form inherits some of the float css. Easy solution for this one, surround the code with a div with a clear class (Stallion has a class that clears floats called clear).

<div class="clear">
Aweber form code
</div>

David

Stallion SEO Theme Support