I’m using a template website (I’m an amateur!). The H1 tag appears below the H2 tag in the code. Does the spider still know what’s going on?

by admin on October 15, 2009

Yes. I wouldn’t worry about it, we handle H1s and H2s very well. Don’t make your entire page H1 or H2. You wouldn’t believe the sort of stuff people put up on the web.

There was a study several years ago that said 40% of web pages had syntax errors.

So having one H1 below H2, I wouldn’t sweat it. There are so many people who do broken web pages, ugly web pages and pages that are not really HTML; we still try to process that because there could be good information on those pages.

Just having some out-of-order H1s or H2s, I wouldn’t worry about it.

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