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It’s been a longstanding debate in the community whether HTML header tags or h1, h2, h3, etc, still retain their importance as ranking factors up to this day and age. Some SEOs say that HTML header tags are not important – it’s fine if they do not contain the keyword your body of content wants to rank for. Meanwhile, other SEOs say the opposite that the header tags – h1, at the very least – should contain the keyword you want to rank for.
In a recent Webmasters hangout, a webmaster posed this exact question to John Mueller. Did his answer shed light on the best practices for HTML header tags? Let’s find out.
HTML header tags are the ones that give organization to the content of page. These are commonly the emphasized/larger bodies of texts found inside your content.

Historically, header tags were ranking factors during the early 2000s, webmasters always put their keywords inside most, if not all, of their headings. However, as times changed, there are instances where sites that have no proper heading implementation rank at the top.
During the recent webmaster hangouts, among other questions that were posed to John Mueller, there was a question about headers:
“A long question on headers and h1, h2, h3… like what is the best set-up?”
John Mueller proceeded to comment on how it’s very easy to produce a lot of theoretical discussion on what the optimal heading could be which makes it overrated. However, John Mueller did confirm that Google uses headings to better understand the content inside pages.
As I’ve said, there are still debates up to this day on how to properly use header tags. Having a hierarchy of importance over which header tag is better is an outdated understanding. Believing that the h1 is more important as a ranking factor than the h2 is really old.
I have used books as an analogy for non-SEOs to better understand header tags. I liken the h1 to the title of the book, h2 to the chapters of the book, and h3 to the subheadings inside each chapter. You can’t really have a thorough grasp of what the book is talking about if one of these factors is missing. Much like with Google’s understanding of our content. Giving massive amounts of importance to h1 and disregarding the h2, h3, etc, will give Google a harder time to understand and process what your content is talking about.
John Mueller went on to explain what header tags are for and how Google uses these headers – better explaining and understanding content. This is his full statement:
“…what we use these headings for is well, we have this big chunk of text or we have this big image and there’s a heading above that, therefore, maybe this heading applies to this chunk of text or to this image. So, it’s not so much…like there are five keywords in these headings, therefore, this page will rank for these keywords but it’s more, here’s some more information about that piece of text or about that image on that page.
That helps us to better understand how to kind of frame that piece of text, how to frame the images that you have within those blocks, and with that it’s a lot easier to find, kind of the… right queries that lead us to these pages. So, it’s not so much that suddenly your page ranks higher because you have those keywords there but, suddenly, it’s more… well, Google understands my content a little bit better, and therefore, it can send users who are explicitly looking for my content a little bit more towards my pages.”
Simple to understand, right? It’s all about helping Google understand your content better. That’s it.
The problem with John Mueller’s statement is that it does not confirm nor deny if HTML header tags ARE ranking factors since what I understood from his statement is that besides from helping Google understand your content better, incorporating keywords inside your headings and expecting your rankings to increase won’t be helpful in the slightest. Fortunately, he thought of this problem and proceeded to answer it. Here’s what he said:
“So obviously there’s a little bit of overlap there with regards to… kind of, Google understanding my content better and ME ranking better for the queries that I care about because if you write about content that… you want to rank for which probably you’re doing, then being able to understand that content better does help us a little bit. But it’s NOT that suddenly your page will rank number one for competitive queries just because you’re making it very easy for Google to understand your content.
So… with that said, I think it’s useful to… kind of, look at the… the individual headings on a page but… don’t… kind of get too dug down into all of these details and variations and instead try to find a way to make it easy for people and for scripts to understand the content and kind of the CONTEXT of things on your pages.”
It’s hard to understand things from John Mueller’s statement but from what I can take away, it seems as though header tags are not direct ranking factors. But they do help Google understand your content better which is, honestly, much better than just stuffing my keywords into my headers.
Here at SEO Hacker, we do everything we can to help our client rank better – provided these are white hat practices. I believe header tags are sort of the same with the meta description. It doesn’t directly affect your rankings, but it does affect other factors which makes it an indirect ranking factor.
So, should you put your keywords in your headers? Go ahead, just as long as it helps with the overall structure and organization of your content. If you’re going to put your keyword in a heading and the content doesn’t relate to your keyword at all then you’re just ruining your chances of ranking. As long as your heading helps users and crawlers understand your content better, have at it. What do you think about HTML header tags? Do you incorporate keywords into yours? Let me know in the comments below!
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What keywords do your top competitors both rank for that you're missing out on? How do you know how much top real estate your URL or page owns in the SERPs? How can you discover answers to your searchers' most common questions and beef up that FAQ page?
We can answer all of those questions with some super-simple workflows using Keyword Explorer. In our last post in this series, we covered how to find ranking keywords, uncover new opportunities, check rankings, and more. This time around, we're diving into three more quick and easy workflows you can use to bolster your keyword research and work smarter, not harder.
Ready to get started? Follow along in the tool with Britney Muller as she shares her very favorite Keyword Explorer features:
Follow along in Keyword Explorer
And remember, if you have a Moz Community account that you use to thumbs-up and comment on Moz Blog posts, you already have free access to Keyword Explorer — let's show you how to use it!
This is my favorite feature of all in Keyword Explorer and let me explain why. Let's say that you're this website, pimylifeup.com. They create projects and tutorials on Raspberry Pis. The two competing websites for Raspberry Pi, which is a mini computer, are raspberrypi.org and canakit.com.
If this is your site, we could paste that in here, select Root Domain, and do a search. Then we're going to grab these other two sites. We're going to copy their URLs and enter them in these additional site areas.
This is essentially going to look at the ranking keywords for your competitive sites that your site doesn't rank for. So it's a really great, high-level overview of what those keywords are.
Pi My Life Up is pretty good. Then you can view the Domain Authority for the sites. Where it gets really exciting is over in Ranking Keywords. Here you can see this is raspberrypi.org, and this is the amount of keywords that they rank for. This blue circle is Pi My Life Up, and then the yellow is CanaKit.
What you want to look at are the keywords that both CanaKit and raspberrypi.org right here rank for that you don't. So you click on the competing overlap keywords, and they will populate here below. You can export all of them, which is great.
Or you could filter by various things, like search volume or difficulty in ranking. What I suggest doing is going through some of these by hand and selecting the keywords that you think might be opportunities for your site.
From here, what you can do is, after you select and click around to the ones that you want, you can add them to a keyword list. So you can keep track of all of these keywords. Let's do Pi Opportunities. I've already saved these in a list over here that's populated.
From a high-level overview, you can see what the popular SERP features are. There are lots of images for these competing keywords. If I want to be competitive in those keyword spaces, I know I need to create content that has images. There are also lots of related questions.
Then from here, I can filter by SERP features or organic click-through rates. Maybe most interestingly I can add a URL. Let's say we'll enter Pi My Life Up, and again we're not seeing any rankings here because this was that overlap that Pi My Life Up didn't rank for but the two competitive sites do.
This is confirming that we don't currently rank for any of these keywords, but we can work on that. What's so great about these saved lists is that you can come back after a couple of weeks or a couple of months and you can select all of the keywords and refresh the data.
You might want to come back to this keyword list, refresh it, enter in your URL, and then filter by rank and see where you're starting to pop up for these keyword terms. It's a really exciting way to dig into the competitive keyword space. There's tons you can do with this, but this was the high-level overview of finding those keywords that your competitors currently rank for that you don't.
You can just paste in the URL or an exact page into Keyword Explorer. Let's just use webmd.com. From here, you get the Overview page. But if you scroll down to the very bottom, you see the ranking distribution.
You can see how many keywords are currently in positions 1 to 3 versus 4 to 10, all the way down to 41 to 50.
This is one of my favorite features that we offer with Keyword Explorer. Just put in your keyword. Click Search, and from here you can navigate over to Keyword Suggestions. In this view, you can filter display keyword suggestions that are questions.
Here you'll see all of the results that are questions, and you can sort by various things. You can add all of these to a list, incorporate them into an FAQ page, whatever your end goal is.
Discover anything new or especially useful? Let us know on Twitter or here in the comments, and keep an eye out for more ways to use your everyday SEO tools to level up your workflows.
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