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    • kevinpark191
      kevinpark191 last edited by

      H1 tags on my client's website follow the template [Service] + [Location]. These two have their own span, meaning there are two spans in an H1 tag.

      class="what">Truck Repair near class="where">California, CA

      How do crawl bots see this? Is that okay for SEO?

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      • martinxm
        martinxm last edited by

        Hi Kevin

        Yes, there's no problem. Check this html rules:

        H1 - H6 tags https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_hn.asp

        Span tag https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_span.asp

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        • DarinPirkey
          DarinPirkey last edited by

          A is simply an inline formatting tag and has no real meaning so it will be fine as far as SEO goes.

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          • Casey_Bryan
            Casey_Bryan last edited by

            I wouldn't see it as a problem either, however, I'd look into whether moving away from microformats and moving to schema might be better and cleaner for the code.

            Google recommends JSON-LD: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data?visit_id=1-636614196659196059-2807489360&hl=en&rd=1

            And you can also add it through GTM, which I find really handy 🙂

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