Joomla H1 Tags Header Tags & Joomla SEO Tips
Insert H1 Tags In Joomla
There’s no factual based evidence that I know of (that springs to mind) that conclusively proves H1 headings on pages, or even H1-H6 headings have any benefits to high ranking in Google.
However, it is semantically correct to have one H1 on your page, the W3C says so. That’s why I like them, and I surmise that if your page doesn’t upset other Google filters first, H1 tags are useful and may well carry some positive weight in terms of page relevance;
- You can achieve this by installing sh404SEF
- Once installed, Go to Components >
- sh404SEF >
- sh404SEF Configuration >
- Meta / SEO >
- Insert H1 tags? >
- Select Yes
Note; It’s almost defacto standard now to have your home page linked via an image wrapped in a H1 tag. I don’t like this method, as it’s so generic and machine generated, and not really the way H1 is supposed to be used. This used to be an old school seo trick, but I’d wager as it’s so prevalent, Google will not thank you for it in 2008.
An H1 should accurately portray what’s on the page, and in my view, shouldn’t be exactly the same as your joomla page title tag. If you are going to use this method, remove the H1 in your image link back to your home page, as if you are following W3C recommendations, you should have only 1 H1 on any page.
Is there any benefit to creating H1 tags for page titles? I think yes, it’s worth it, but it depends on the site. If you’re already tripping Google filters because your site is spammy, then don’t bother 
Written by Shaun Anderson
Hi Shaun,
I think that one of the problems with coming up with rules to ‘help you enhance your position’ in any search engine is that it’s not in their interest to publish the information…. Everyone would skew their pages…
However, much as I like to use H1 tags, I tend to use images a lot for site promotion, just because the lettering looks better.
Now the interesting thing is that many august sites, such as http://www.thetimesonline.co.uk don’t use H1 to promote themselves, but use it to promote items within their sites.
It’s as if they don’t care about their brand, but expect the stories to sell the brand.
cheers
Rob
n.b. They use images for their title.
I have provide the hack with css styling for the joomla 1.5.
The following files need the modification:
\website root\components\com-content\views\frontpage\tmpl\default_item.php
\website root\components\com-content\views\article\tmpl\default.php
which can be download and installed. All that is needed is the modification of the css styling