Twenty Eleven Child h1 & h2 tags header.php

Do not edit the Twenty Eleven theme. It is the default WordPress theme and having access to an unedited version of the theme is vital when dealing with a range of site issues. Create a child theme for your changes.

Hey Esmi – I do have a child theme! The files contained in it are:

• footer.php
• functions.php
• header.php
• index.php
• style.css

Sorry I didn’t make this clear in my initial post.

First of all, you should be aware that the views expressed on Kevin Muldoon’s article as, by no means, definitive. When W3C were talking about 1 H1 per page, they were talking about a static page that covered only a single topic – not a list of Posts. There is no blanket rule here. Each site has to be judged on a case-by-case basis.

However, if you wish to implement the kind of structure that Kevin suggests, you need to create a customised version of content.php in your child theme. If you intend to make use of Post Formats, you’ll also need custom copies of most (if not all) of the other content-xx.php files

Thanks for pointing out that Kevin’s information is more for static page sites and not those containing a blog as well. I’m still concerned because I am receiving an error in “SEO Doctor” addon for Firefox that I have 2 h1 tags – on the bulk of my pages. The main blog page has 4 h1’s because of the title of each post.

What do you feel would be the most beneficial route for me to take in this situation as far as gaining the best SEO? My site can be found at https://ezonevirtualservices.com

Thanks!

I am receiving an error in “SEO Doctor” addon for Firefox that I have 2 h1 tags – on the bulk of my pages

That isn’t an error. And in the context of a blog, is of highly debatable importance.

Do I understand that your opinion is to leave the layout as is?

Well, put it this way, unless you want to get into customising most of the theme templates, you could leave it as is and you should not suffer any real negative SEO effects. Especially with only a few posts per page. And this is from someone who tends to be rather pedantic and downright picky about semantic HTML and logical heading structures.

Here’s an issue I’ve been having with seo doctor for firefox…
My blog’s header.phpo file has H1 tags for the name of the blog which, invariably describes the entire theme of the blog.

However, each individual post, as in single.php file, came with H2 tags (kubrik theme), and I had to change these (being title of each individual post, totally unrelated to the name in Header.php) to H1 tags.

Now, my confusion, seo wise is, what’s the correct format, should the H1 tags which merely describe the main page, be used to canvas all posts, or should such a blog have 2H1 tags, one for the header referencing the main blog post, and other H1 tags for each individual single post?

By the way, my blog only shows one post per page, instead of the continuous nature of posts all on one page.

Would really appreciate feedback on this..