Should i use h1 for logo

Search engines will see the logo as the first heading. But perhaps this is a hindrance to the actual content on the web page e. This logo structure shows the HTML image wrapped in a simple div tag. This is due to the H1 tag containing CSS or default browser styling that could affect your logo. In terms of indexing, Google provide no definite answer to this question. The lack of content will likely reduce the amount of keywords associated with the website brand.

Here at Zeal, we have created websites both with and without the h1 tag as the logo. We look at each website on an individual basis and explore whether the logo should be h1 tag or not. We look at each website we build from a content marketing perspective with on-page SEO in mind to decide the structural mark up of the site.

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If you're using an image in it, you need to do it with a fallback method for degradability:. This way you can set an image to show up for the H1 which people often misuse as the logo area and still have good content inside it for people using degraded internet experiences. It also makes your SEO value happy. H1 is like a title certainly you like to complement your HTML title and there should be just one per page, just as a page has only one title.

Often, the practical use of this logic is hard to enforce on a web page exactly -- there are so many incidental bits of info that just don't roll up into that hierarchy.

However, if you sit down and try to break it down with that logic, I feel there is a benefit to the discipline. I'm h1 for main title guy. And main title is decorated site name, or as you call it, logo. Here's the point -- in header of website, logo is not actually a logo, it's illustrated site's header. Designers just like to design it as logo. Now, as h1 is the most important section as it tells the visitor what's it all about, the visitor cannot understand the page, because h1 is too specific.

About who? This page is about Google. Here's the section about us. See -- there's no question? All is clear. Page structure. If you put site main heading into div or p, there's nothing to associate it with. How can I associate "About U" with Google if h1 comes after? Therefore you don't display information, you describe it.

And each page is independent. Therefore you describe one page because there are no associations between pages. Just links that link individual pages. THIS page is About us. It just describes something called "About us". This site describes google. And there is a section About us. You cannot use h2 - h1 - h3 as it is illogical, therefore a big fail.

Just because w3c haven't said it is not allowed, doesn't make it valid. It's illogical, think about it. I was just browsing around SitePoint www. In general, I found that they have the page title as the h1 tag, and the logo set as h2. You can see this at a blog page like www. Cruising around the site you find different setups.

Although from that page, if you click on any particular product for more info www. A typical web page is similar to the blog, see www. As we all know that heading tags are helpful in SEO. But as far this question is concerned, I would say if there is not any heading in that particular page or no text is available that can be written in h1 then we should use h1 for logo because when we do seo this h1 will be helpful for searching purpose.

Otherwise div is the best substitute for logo. This topic was automatically closed 91 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.