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Heading hierarchy and google page reading

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The post asks whether the h1 heading style maintains the same hierarchy structure as the HTML Heading 1 tag when it comes to Google reading the page. The community members explain that the h1 style is just a visual styling, while the HTML Heading 1 tag is what Google actually looks at. They suggest using the HTML Heading 1 tag if you want Google to recognize the content as important. The community members also discuss how you can use different heading styles (e.g., h2) while still keeping the HTML Heading 1 tag for SEO purposes, and provide an example of how to do this.

AAnders
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Does the heading style h1 maintain the same hierarchy structure as heading 1? When it comes to google reading the page ?

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SSofian Bettayeb

No, heading style h1 is just a styling. Heading 1 is the HTML tag that google will look at.

If you want Google to know it’s important, you should use the HTML Heading 1

AAnders

oh thank god i asked this now and now after 40 pages done

AAnders

ty so much

OOllie Brown

Sofian is right, thats why we use the heading 1 override tag etc. As Google reads it one way, but as users we sometimes want the H2 to be bigger than the h1 for better UX. 🙂

AAnders

so if i need heading (for h1) but for this section i need some spec styling and that styling i made for heading-style-h3 then i put both in.

SSofian Bettayeb

So, i made a small example.

Imagine you want the title of the pricing section to be an H1 HTML tag but still look the same- h2 style heading.
First, you see on the image below, I copy paste the pricing 1 component and the HTML tag is set to heading 2 (1) and it has no style attached (2)

If I want to make the title an H1, I will have to select the title, use the small icon (1) and switch the tag to H1 (2). If the title style is not fitting my taste, I can always change the class to Heading-style-h2 (3)

AAnders

everything makes sense now, can see i have to redo a few lil things. Thank god i saw all of this now:

Thank you like really 🙌🚀

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