H1 tags are one of the many important elements to go into achieving top search engine rankings. Header tags carry a lot of importance with the search engines because it let’s them know the proper layout of your website pages. When search engines are crawling through your web site, they need to know the most important content on your site and header tags provide them with what they are looking for.

The best place to insert your h1 tag is in the header just above your content.

It’s important to make sure that you include your keyword phrase in all three of your h1 tags.

To start off you’ll want to input an h1 tag with your keyword phrase in the first sentence of your article. Then in the middle of your article you’ll want to include and h2 or h3 tag with your keyword. In the last sentence you want to make sure that you insert your keyword with an h2 or h3 tag.

Make sure that you have your keyword phrase in the first and last sentence of your article.

When you insert heading tags into your article you’ll want to make sure that they are separated and not too close together.

Where to Find H1 Tags in WordPress:

H1 Tags for Top Seo Rankings

*In your WordPress back office you’ll see a drop down menu that says heading 1, heading 2, and heading 3.

How H1 Tags, H2 & H3 Tags look in Html:

<h1 style=”text-align: left;”>

"Your keyword sentence here"</h1>

<h3>

"Your keyword sentence here"</h3>

<h2 style=”text-align: left;”>

"Your keyword sentence here"</h2>

H1 Tags End Up looking like this:

“Your keyword sentence here”-h1 tag

“Your keyword sentence here”-h3 tag

“Your keyword sentence here”-h2 tag

H1 tags are a form of on-page seo and following the proper on-page search engine optimization techniques is extremely important if you want your content to show on the first page of the search engines. Headings tags are just one of the major factors to proper on-page seo.

Other important on-page seo factors include:

*Proper use of alt tags

*Adding rel=”nofollow” to external links

*Proper site font decoration

*Internal links with in your site

*Keyword in title

*Keyword in url

*Keyword in Description

There is no guarantee that if you follow all of the proper on-page seo techniques that your content show on the first page of the search engines. You can have all of your on-page search engine optimization techniques set-up perfectly but if you don’t have proper off-page seo then all of your on-page work was for nothing.

Important off-page seo factors include:

*Page backlinks

*Domain backlinks

*Page .edu/.gov backlinks

*Domain age

*Page rank

*Google index count

*DMOZ directory listing

*Yahoo directory listing

It’s important to realize that both on-page and off-page seo plays an important factor in achieving top search engine rankings. Just missing one of these factors above could mean the difference between your content showing on the first page of Google or never showing at all.