How does H1 tags works ?

**Coldman** · 06-01-2009

I read several sites on the need for tags H1 H2 H3 ... to improve its referencing ... but even after some research, I did not understand how it works ...

Is it to replace the title tag?

Someone can tell me "just" what's good for and how to use it?

**fellah** · 06-01-2009

I do not know about the listing, but the usefulness of h1 ,..., h6 is simple: it is basically used for titles. With h1 for the title of the highest level, and so on ...

**XSI** · 06-01-2009

It's for securities in between the tags and <body> </ body>.

<h1> the section title </ h1>
Text ...

It should something like:

Here is the section title
Text ...

**Lemog** · 06-01-2009

As said before <h1>, <h2>, <h*> are used to offer securities in your page.

Regarding the utility for referencing: since these tags show titles, search engines stand out more easily and are more likely to be used in the indexing and displaying results.

**switchblade327** · 06-01-2009

The other advantage of <h*> tags is their selection in CSS. I do not know if you know/use the CSS in your pages (x) html, but you just put in the CSS code below to completely define the style of your title level *.

Code:

 h1 
{
 color:red;
 font-weight:bold;
}

So, theoretically it will default to spend all your h1 tags in red and bold. After that, in practice, you will see that by default objects <h*> type inherit default style that you need if you wish to override the change.