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        • blake-76624
          blake-76624 last edited by

          Ok so I am writing different pages and the first heading is an H3 just because I wanted to it be a certain size.  Then as you see the content, I have an H1 tag.

          Example page: http://www.oxfordmshomes.net/condos/acadia-court-Oxford-MS

          you can see that "Acadia First" is the first thing you see on the page and it uses an H3 element.

          Long story short, my hierarchy is wrong.  Does this have any negative effect on my SEO efforts?

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          • wojkwasi
            wojkwasi last edited by

            Order of heading tags is important... use CSS to control size & tags other than headings!

            Think of a HTML doc as you would any other academic document..

            Animals

            Cats

            Red Cats

            Pink Cats

            Dogs

            Round Dogs

            Square Dogs

            ..you get the idea 😉

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            • AlanMosley
              AlanMosley @blake-76624 last edited by

              You have links in your menu, that is enough.
              as for you hierarchy, you should be ok, as a H1 is what it is, but if you don’t use a h1 SE will look for the first emphasized tag to use as a heading so its not conclusive.
              Try using html5 to mark out your page.
              I would use the hgroup and article tags.

              <hgroup class="title">

              Perth SEO Company

              Local SEO Perth Western Australia

              </hgroup>

              Blah blah blah

              It is not sure if SE's are up to date on html5 yet, but they will do so,

              make sure on the page specific content is in the article tag

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              • blake-76624
                blake-76624 @blake-76624 last edited by

                ah yes.  I did this because I wrote a page for every subdivision in my town.  I don't really know a better way to do it.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I thought that It was always good to have a link to a page and not have the page just floating on the site with no links.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

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                • EGOL
                  EGOL @blake-76624 last edited by

                  There must be 100 links commented out in your code... Here is an example...
                  
                  <a href="[http://www.oxfordmshomes.net/condos/a-southern-place-Oxford-MS](view-source:http://www.oxfordmshomes.net/condos/a-southern-place-Oxford-MS)" class="main">
                  <span>A SOUTHERN PLACEspan>a>li>
                  
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                  • blake-76624
                    blake-76624 @EGOL last edited by

                    I'm not sure what you mean by link tags commented out?  Do you just mean regarding under my subdivision tabs?  Thanks Egol

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                    • EGOL
                      EGOL last edited by

                      The short answer...  I don't know for sure.

                      Clarified answer...  At the present time I do not believe that there is a huge difference in how Google and other search engines treats H1, H2 and H3.  However, just to have things straight... I would make that

                      Acadia Court an H1.  You can change the appearance using css.

                      You didn't ask but when I looked at the code of your page I was shocked to see so many link tags commented out.  I would be getting rid of those if this was my site.

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