How to use h1, h2, h3, heading tags on blog posts for beginners
If my blog post title is How to cook fried rice. Then <h1> which is my Main Heading should be how to cook fried rice. <h2> which are Headings may be (1) types of fried rice, (2) Ingredients for cooking friend rice, (3) how to cook fried rice, Etc.
I am very well aware that most Bloggers find it very hard to use heading tags on blog posts much especially the beginners. So I will use this little time to explain how to use h1, h2, h3 heading tags on blog posts for beginners.
What are heading tags on blog posts
In a blog post, heading tags are just like headings in a textbook or a newspaper. Without these tags a blog post will just be like a bunch of texts without guidelines.
Imagine reading this post without headings?
In a textbook there is a title, chapters, topics, subtopic, minor topics and so.
The same way blog post has main heading <h1></h1>, major headings <h2></h2>, subheadings <h3></h3>, minor headings <h4></h4> and so on in a post,
Why are heading tags styles very important on blog posts
Have you ever been to bookshop and buy a book by it’s title? You, don’t know anything about the book but you love the title. That is how important are heading styles in a blog post.
Blog post heading is very important for search 🔍 engine bots to identify you blog post title and as well target keywords.
If you did not specify that your post title is a heading, search 🔍 engines may read it as a plain text or like an ordinary paragraph in a post. Making it very hard to rank in the SERPs.
Where to use h1, h2, and h3 heading tags on posts
We use headings where necessary. We can’t use them anyhow, instead, we use them to modify our post content so that people and bots can read then easily.
A longer post can can have Title, headings, subheadings, minor headings. Those are the places you need to add headings.
How to use h1, h2, h3 heading tags on blog posts
In a blog post our <h1> should be our blog post title and it places automatically in your theme’s HTML codes.
Unfortunately, some templates don’t use h1 on blog post title. That is why you need to edit that part of your template. So that it will be h1 for posts title
Read this post on how to make post title to h1 in blogger.
Although in blogger h1 is called “Major Heading” in post editor but you don’t have to use that except where necessary.
If you have taking car of h1 issue in your blog then the remaining heading tags will be added manually on your post 📬 editor.
H2 is called “Heading” in blogger post editor and called “Heading 2” in most of the WordPress post editors.
H3, H4 are called “Sub heading” and “Minor headings” in Blogger while in WordPress are called “Heading 3” and “Heading 4” respectively.
In other to understand how to use these headings rightly I will like to us some illustrations.
For instance:
If my blog post title is How to cook fried rice
Then <h1> which is my Main Heading should be how to cook fried rice.
<h2> which are Headings may be (1) types of fried rice, (2) Ingredients for cooking friend rice, (3) how to cook fried rice, Etc.
<h3> which are subheadings may be, [under Headind (1) types of fried rice] 1. African fried rice, 2. American fried rice, etc.
<h4> under African fried rice may be 1. Nigerian fried rice, 2. South African fried rice, 3. Lyberian fried rice, erc.
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