After reading a popular SEO  / webmaster forum recently, one of the questions someone had posted was “how many <h1> title headings is acceptable in Google?“.  Firstly for any non web designers, a <h1> tag is the code that means basically ‘the most important heading of the page’. By definition there should only really be one of these per page, for a range of reasons. Firstly, for a website to be accessible it has to be easily understood by screenreaders, which are used by vision-impaired users. To these users, the structure of the page and the semantics of the code make the text ‘flow’ in a logical and understandable fashion. Having multiple <h1> heading title tags can impair their understanding as it confuses the structure of the page, and might create a somewhat disjointed experience.

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