Google Tutor Topic: H1 Tags and Hyperlinks

Google Tutor Topic: H1 Tags and Hyperlinks http://www.googletutor.com/forums/topic/h1-tags-and-hyperlinks Google forums en-US Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:29:39 +0000 bbpress 1.0-alpha-2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.googletutor.com/forums/search.php 10minutes on "H1 Tags and Hyperlinks" http://www.googletutor.com/forums/topic/h1-tags-and-hyperlinks/page/4#post-107 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:16:41 +0000 10minutes 107@http://www.googletutor.com/forums/ Well the original thought process was that the H1 is the most identifiable font format for on page optimization next to perhaps the meta title & description. If you take that biggest factor and link it to another page all about the topic then maybe just maybe that'll help. More than anything though this isn't exactly a practice of ours but more or less a question simply proposed with the inside joke mentioned above. The Tutor on "H1 Tags and Hyperlinks" http://www.googletutor.com/forums/topic/h1-tags-and-hyperlinks/page/4#post-105 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:13:03 +0000 The Tutor 105@http://www.googletutor.com/forums/ I do have thoughts, I'll try to follow up with more later, but I had to ask -- why the focus on linking the <h1>? 10minutes on "H1 Tags and Hyperlinks" http://www.googletutor.com/forums/topic/h1-tags-and-hyperlinks/page/4#post-97 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:44:54 +0000 10minutes 97@http://www.googletutor.com/forums/ This is a funny post but mostly due to the inside joke behind it. This was the exact question posed to Jeremy aka footinmouth when he became the Manager of our department and still wet behind his ears with SEO related practices. This very question is asked of him every couple of months just for the hell of it. @The Tutor I don't think you answered his question but I also don't think he asked it right or was clear enough on it either. However your answer of course is still useful to anyone reading it and then applying your thoughts into their actions. Let me expand on his question a little... Let's take the desired keyword, "Denver Real Estate". We have clients that are always clamoring to be #1 for that specific term; nothing else matters. The first thing we try to do is make the home page relevant to the term using quality unique content with partial use and full use of the keyword term, proper font modifications (H, Bold, Italics etc.) image alt text, anchor text links etc. At that point we realize that the term is competitive enough that one page isn't going to be enough to convince Google that our client(s) site is more relevant than others based off of one well optimized home page so we might start creating pages for the following topics: - Denver Economy - Denver Schools - Denver Foreclosures - Denver Relocation - Denver Transportation Of course each of these pages would be optimized appropriately and while the H1 might say, "Denver Economy" or what have you; we would strive to find a way to slip in "Denver real estate". So what Jeremy is asking... From the home page H1; is it ok to say link out to the Denver Relocation page or another Denver page which then might tie into the other pages created to purposefully boost over all site relevancy to the Denver related term at the risk of telling search engines, "This is the key focus on the home page BUT check out this page..." Thoughts? 10minutes on "H1 Tags and Hyperlinks" http://www.googletutor.com/forums/topic/h1-tags-and-hyperlinks/page/4#post-96 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:43:54 +0000 10minutes 96@http://www.googletutor.com/forums/ This is a funny post but mostly due to the inside joke behind it. This was the exact question posed to Jeremy aka footinmouth when he became the Manager of our department and still wet behind his ears with SEO related practices. This very question is asked of him every couple of months just for the hell of it. @The Tutor I don't think you answered his question but I also don't think he asked it right or was clear enough on it either. However your answer of course is still useful to anyone reading it and then applying your thoughts into their actions. Let me expand on his question a little... Let's take the desired keyword, "Denver Real Estate". We have clients that are always clamoring to be #1 for that specific term; nothing else matters. The first thing we try to do is make the home page relevant to the term using quality unique content with partial use and full use of the keyword term, proper font modifications (H, Bold, Italics etc.) image alt text, anchor text links etc. At that point we realize that the term is competitive enough that one page isn't going to be enough to convince Google that our client(s) site is more relevant than others based off of one well optimized home page so we might start creating pages for the following topics: - Denver Economy - Denver Schools - Denver Foreclosures - Denver Relocation - Denver Transportation Of course each of these pages would be optimized appropriately and while the H1 might say, "Denver Economy" or what have you; we would strive to find a way to slip in "Denver real estate". So what Jeremy is asking... From the home page H1; is it ok to say link out to the Denver Relocation page or another Denver page which then might tie into the other pages created to purposefully boost over all site relevancy to the Denver related term at the risk of telling search engines, "This is the key focus on the home page BUT check out this page..." Thoughts? 10minutes on "H1 Tags and Hyperlinks" http://www.googletutor.com/forums/topic/h1-tags-and-hyperlinks/page/4#post-95 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:39:09 +0000 10minutes 95@http://www.googletutor.com/forums/ This is a funny post but mostly due to the inside joke behind it. This was the exact question posed to Jeremy aka footinmouth when he became the Manager of our department and still wet behind his ears with SEO related practices. This very question is asked of him every couple of months just for the hell of it. @The Tutor I don't think you answered his question but I also don't think he asked it right or was clear enough on it either. However your answer of course is still useful to anyone reading it and then applying your thoughts into their actions. Let me expand on his question a little... Let's take the desired keyword, "Denver Real Estate". We have clients that are always clamoring to be #1 for that specific term; nothing else matters. The first thing we try to do is make the home page relevant to the term using quality unique content with partial use and full use of the keyword term, proper font modifications (H, Bold, Italics etc.) image alt text, anchor text links etc. At that point we realize that the term is competitive enough that one page isn't going to be enough to convince Google that our client(s) site is more relevant than others based off of one well optimized home page so we might start creating pages for the following topics: - Denver Economy - Denver Schools - Denver Foreclosures - Denver Relocation - Denver Transportation Of course each of these pages would be optimized appropriately and while the H1 might say, "Denver Economy" or what have you; we would strive to find a way to slip in "Denver real estate". So what Jeremy is asking... From the home page H1; is it ok to say link out to the Denver Relocation page or another Denver page which then might tie into the other pages created to purposefully boost over all site relevancy to the Denver related term at the risk of telling search engines, "This is the key focus on the home page BUT check out this page..." Thoughts? 10minutes on "H1 Tags and Hyperlinks" http://www.googletutor.com/forums/topic/h1-tags-and-hyperlinks/page/4#post-94 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:37:16 +0000 10minutes 94@http://www.googletutor.com/forums/ This is a funny post but mostly due to the inside joke behind it. This was the exact question posed to Jeremy aka footinmouth when he became the Manager of our department and still wet behind his ears with SEO related practices. This very question is asked of him every couple of months just for the hell of it. @The Tutor I don't think you answered his question but I also don't think he asked it right or was clear enough on it either. However your answer of course is still useful to anyone reading it and then applying your thoughts into their actions. Let me expand on his question a little... Let's take the desired keyword, "Denver Real Estate". We have clients that are always clamoring to be #1 for that specific term; nothing else matters. The first thing we try to do is make the home page relevant to the term using quality unique content with partial use and full use of the keyword term, proper font modifications (H, Bold, Italics etc.) image alt text, anchor text links etc. At that point we realize that the term is competitive enough that one page isn't going to be enough to convince Google that our client(s) site is more relevant than others based off of one well optimized home page so we might start creating pages for the following topics: - Denver Economy - Denver Schools - Denver Foreclosures - Denver Relocation - Denver Transportation Of course each of these pages would be optimized appropriately and while the H1 might say, "Denver Economy" or what have you; we would strive to find a way to slip in "Denver real estate". So what Jeremy is asking... From the home page H1; is it ok to say link out to the Denver Relocation page or another Denver page which then might tie into the other pages created to purposefully boost over all site relevancy to the Denver related term at the risk of telling search engines, "This is the key focus on the home page BUT check out this page..." Thoughts? 10minutes on "H1 Tags and Hyperlinks" http://www.googletutor.com/forums/topic/h1-tags-and-hyperlinks/page/4#post-93 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:35:45 +0000 10minutes 93@http://www.googletutor.com/forums/ This is a funny post but mostly due to the inside joke behind it. This was the exact question posed to Jeremy aka footinmouth when he became the Manager of our department and still wet behind his ears with SEO related practices. This very question is asked of him every couple of months just for the hell of it. @The Tutor I don't think you answered his question but I also don't think he asked it right or was clear enough on it either. However your answer of course is still useful to anyone reading it and then applying your thoughts into their actions. Let me expand on his question a little... Let's take the desired keyword, "Denver Real Estate". We have clients that are always clamoring to be #1 for that specific term; nothing else matters. The first thing we try to do is make the home page relevant to the term using quality unique content with partial use and full use of the keyword term, proper font modifications (H, Bold, Italics etc.) image alt text, anchor text links etc. At that point we realize that the term is competitive enough that one page isn't going to be enough to convince Google that our client(s) site is more relevant than others based off of one well optimized home page so we might start creating pages for the following topics: - Denver Economy - Denver Schools - Denver Foreclosures - Denver Relocation - Denver Transportation Of course each of these pages would be optimized appropriately and while the H1 might say, "Denver Economy" or what have you; we would strive to find a way to slip in "Denver real estate". So what Jeremy is asking... From the home page H1; is it ok to say link out to the Denver Relocation page or another Denver page which then might tie into the other pages created to purposefully boost over all site relevancy to the Denver related term at the risk of telling search engines, "This is the key focus on the home page BUT check out this page..." Thoughts? 10minutes on "H1 Tags and Hyperlinks" http://www.googletutor.com/forums/topic/h1-tags-and-hyperlinks/page/4#post-92 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:34:58 +0000 10minutes 92@http://www.googletutor.com/forums/ This is a funny post but mostly due to the inside joke behind it. This was the exact question posed to Jeremy aka footinmouth when he became the Manager of our department and still wet behind his ears with SEO related practices. This very question is asked of him every couple of months just for the hell of it. @The Tutor I don't think you answered his question but I also don't think he asked it right or was clear enough on it either. However your answer of course is still useful to anyone reading it and then applying your thoughts into their actions. Let me expand on his question a little... Let's take the desired keyword, "Denver Real Estate". We have clients that are always clamoring to be #1 for that specific term; nothing else matters. The first thing we try to do is make the home page relevant to the term using quality unique content with partial use and full use of the keyword term, proper font modifications (H, Bold, Italics etc.) image alt text, anchor text links etc. At that point we realize that the term is competitive enough that one page isn't going to be enough to convince Google that our client(s) site is more relevant than others based off of one well optimized home page so we might start creating pages for the following topics: - Denver Economy - Denver Schools - Denver Foreclosures - Denver Relocation - Denver Transportation Of course each of these pages would be optimized appropriately and while the H1 might say, "Denver Economy" or what have you; we would strive to find a way to slip in "Denver real estate". So what Jeremy is asking... From the home page H1; is it ok to say link out to the Denver Relocation page or another Denver page which then might tie into the other pages created to purposefully boost over all site relevancy to the Denver related term at the risk of telling search engines, "This is the key focus on the home page BUT check out this page..." Thoughts? 10minutes on "H1 Tags and Hyperlinks" http://www.googletutor.com/forums/topic/h1-tags-and-hyperlinks/page/4#post-91 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:34:04 +0000 10minutes 91@http://www.googletutor.com/forums/ This is a funny post but mostly due to the inside joke behind it. This was the exact question posed to Jeremy aka footinmouth when he became the Manager of our department and still wet behind his ears with SEO related practices. This very question is asked of him every couple of months just for the hell of it. @The Tutor I don't think you answered his question but I also don't think he asked it right or was clear enough on it either. However your answer of course is still useful to anyone reading it and then applying your thoughts into their actions. Let me expand on his question a little... Let's take the desired keyword, "Denver Real Estate". We have clients that are always clamoring to be #1 for that specific term; nothing else matters. The first thing we try to do is make the home page relevant to the term using quality unique content with partial use and full use of the keyword term, proper font modifications (H, Bold, Italics etc.) image alt text, anchor text links etc. At that point we realize that the term is competitive enough that one page isn't going to be enough to convince Google that our client(s) site is more relevant than others based off of one well optimized home page so we might start creating pages for the following topics: - Denver Economy - Denver Schools - Denver Foreclosures - Denver Relocation - Denver Transportation Of course each of these pages would be optimized appropriately and while the H1 might say, "Denver Economy" or what have you; we would strive to find a way to slip in "Denver real estate". So what Jeremy is asking... From the home page H1; is it ok to say link out to the Denver Relocation page or another Denver page which then might tie into the other pages created to purposefully boost over all site relevancy to the Denver related term at the risk of telling search engines, "This is the key focus on the home page BUT check out this page..." Thoughts? The Tutor on "H1 Tags and Hyperlinks" http://www.googletutor.com/forums/topic/h1-tags-and-hyperlinks/page/3#post-89 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:09:28 +0000 The Tutor 89@http://www.googletutor.com/forums/ the problem here is the flow of link juice. if page A is the most relevant for (City)(Keyword) any links to page B will get some link juice from page A, which reduces the PR of A resulting in possible lower rankings for A. that doesn't mean you don't want to link out, it just means you really have to think about the flow of all the juice relevant to the page you want to rank. nofollow has actually turned out to be a useful tool for this since you an link out however is best for your visitors and just nofollow the links to the pages that you don't want to ge the juice. did that answer your question? footinmouth on "H1 Tags and Hyperlinks" http://www.googletutor.com/forums/topic/h1-tags-and-hyperlinks/page/3#post-87 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:46:01 +0000 footinmouth 87@http://www.googletutor.com/forums/ I've always wanted to get extra opinions on this subject: Lets say you have a site whose target is (City)(Keyword) Would hyperlinking that tag to an internal tag be an internal page with heavier relevance to that term? Or would that indicate to google that while your SAYING that (city)(Keyword) is the main topic( by calling it h1), you should actually go to this more focused page for information.