Html5 in SEO
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What is the convinience of using html5 for seo.As i read is not too good using many h1 in each metacontent (due to crawler alerts) , but it is good to use html5.
We have follow or so this web guidelines www.tumanitas.com whtat do you think about taht?
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Logically, it usually makes sense to only have one
tag which summarizes the overall page content - that's why there's h2-h5 available. However, if you segement your content and tag eachorwith an
<hgroup>that contains an
tag you should be fine as far as crawler alerts are concerned - I think Google will get the point. Just don't expect each H1 tag to carry the "weight" you'd expect it to if you're using multiple tags on the same page.
</hgroup>
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Good. So you will use only one h1 for each html5 page and star with h2 the articles or sections instead of h1 (if you follow recomandtions such as modernizr) to avoid crawler alerts? That is my question, we have devoloped the whole web in html5 considering navigators incompatibilities but I dont feel confidence following estrictly html5 guidelines of using h1 because it will means a page with 5 h1
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I with yo on this one.
I see so many peole with crappy code busting their buts getting links. Having nice clean code that means somthing is a great advantage.
ill take a gess you are using ASP.MVC?
I will point out and aside is linked to a page, but wheninside an article it is linked to teh article. very handy.
But you should takee it a step further. Use microdata. http://schema.org/
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HTML5 is fantastic for SEO because you can better segment main content, menus, headers, footers, links sections, etc. Some examples:
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Improve Page Segmentation; an example:
<hgroup>
headline with keywords
a secondary headline
</hgroup>
Lorem ipsum, etc..
Typically, these tags replacetags. The benefit is that these are more meaningful and provide more context to search engines.
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Let the search engines know what content on your page isn't the primary focus using
<aside></aside>
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Identify primary navigation using the
<nav></nav>
tag
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New
<header>and
<footer>tags (within ) are flexible and good for reducing the possibility of duplicate content issues if you have a "fat" footer with a lot of content or large flyouts on your primary navigation that repeat on each page. </footer>
</header>
I've seen ranking improvements from just upgrading a site to HTML5 and implementing solid page segmentation using the aforementioned tags. The caveat is that not all browsers support HTML5 natively, so you'll need to ensure that the website degrades gracefully in the absence of support for the newer tags. I recommend something like Modernizr to take care of that.
Finally, IBM has a good article with examples on how to implement HTML5.
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