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#6973 – h1 and h2 tags

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Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:10 UTC
dior707-yahoo-com
 Hello
I need to improve my SEO because I am in the omitted results of Google.
My website is xxxx.uz with more that 2000 articles inside which are in google index but in the omitted results only.
As I was advised I need to make h1 tags and description.
In your component there is a place where I can add h1 (title) and description manually. But as I cannot do it for 2000+ articles is there any other way to me to make NOT similar title and descriptions?
Thursday, 27 February 2020 09:32 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

In your component there is a place where I can add h1 (title) and description manually.
h1 and title are not at all the same thing. In sh404SEF, you can set (among other thing) the page title and the meta description. H1 tags are added inside your content, not in sh404SEF. Usually your template is responsible for properly using h1, h2, etc

As I was advised I need to make h1 tags and description.
This is not very good advice:

- meta description is not used for ranking so it will not help you at all in that case
- adding h1 tag is fine but it will bring almost no improvement if your results are not showing at all. It's a very little thing that you can do to improve your results when the results are good and you want to be at the top. In any case, this is more a template thing

We are not SEO specialist but I took a quick look at one sample page, https://xxxx.uz/homiladorlikda-analizlar/homiladorlik-davrida-vrach-qabulida-bo-lish-va-analiz-topshirish-muddatlari, and I can already tell you there's something totally obvious to explain why you are completely omitted from Google results: your page is just a very large ad.

You have a very large set of ads at the top and then your article and then more large ads.

Such pages have zero value for Google and they will most likely never show them in results, whatever you do. You must have much, much less ads, and very importantly, they must not be at the top, they must not be the first thing people see. If you look at the screenshot above, for a new visitor, your site has no content, it's just an ad. You have to scroll down to discover a little bit of content.

I would say you have to solve your ads problem first. And then hire an SEO specialist to assist you in improving your results.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr


 
Thursday, 27 February 2020 09:46 UTC
dior707-yahoo-com
Thank you very much.
So today I disabled al Ads as you mentioned.
But anyway as I know joomla does not makes write htms for h1, h2 and descriptions I want to improve them myself. And I read that SEF404 have some setting that can help to make h1, h2 and descriptions automatikally if we will set up.
Can you help with this settings?

Thursday, 27 February 2020 10:00 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

And I read that SEF404 have some setting that can help to make h1, h2 and descriptions automatikally if we will set up.
sh404SEF will not do anything about H1 tags. This is about content and is normally handled by your template, which is in charge of outputting your content in the correct way. You can certainly make template overrides for that but it's going to be a lot of difficult work and it won't help you rank.

As for meta description, again, it won't help you rank at all. It can only help you get a better "click rate" from search results, but it won't help you get into the search results.
Looking at the same page, here is the description you have today:



I cannot understand the language but you certainly have a description so you are the judge if this is a good one or not.

sh404SEF has a feature where it will automatically create a meta description if you have not created one either in the article parameters in Joomla or inside of sh404SEF itself. This is enabled by default so the description we see on the screenshot above has probably been created by sh404SEF already.



The automatic description is never as good as what a human being can do and so if you really, really want to spend time on writing description manually, you can:

- write the under the "Publishing" tab of Joomla article edit page
- in sh404SEF SEF URL Manager: search for a URL, click on it and add the description (documentation is here)

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr
 
Thursday, 27 February 2020 11:19 UTC
dior707-yahoo-com
This is the main problem. The description that you showed is the same for almast all articles. Only that I had changed manually at Joomla article setting they have another description. But as I cannot change all old articles descriptions I need to make automatically generated descriptions for then otherwise as I understand correctly google see my site as a dublicate content site. Both description and H1 are the same. So google thinks that I have lots of dublicated content.
Thursday, 27 February 2020 11:22 UTC
dior707-yahoo-com
The description in your screenshot is description of my site...and it appears almost in every article.
Thursday, 27 February 2020 13:21 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

This is the main problem. The description that you showed is the same for almast all articles. Only that I had changed manually at Joomla article setting they have another description.
Ah I understand. This is a common problem with Joomla. It happens because you have entered a description in Joomla global configuration (the ".. description of my site..").

When you do that, Joomla puts it automatically in all pages that do not have a custome description (and that is very, very bad).

The fix is simple: delete that global description in Joomla global configuration. Then sh404SEF should start to create automatic description for all pages where you did not add one manually.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr
 
Thursday, 27 February 2020 13:41 UTC
dior707-yahoo-com
Wow! Thank you very much.
And what about h1?
Because all my h1 are the same too
Thursday, 27 February 2020 14:00 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

h1 is not important in your case and not something sh404SEF can help you with. Like I said, this is part of your content and it's displayed by your template, we cannot have any effect on that.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr
 
Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:18 UTC
dior707-yahoo-com
Hi
Thank you!

But what is this setting mean in the configuration settings of SEF404

"Change multiple h1 to h2"

and

"Title and Metas"

how can I configure them so they helped me?
Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:24 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

Exactly what it says: if there are several H1 on a page, sh404SEF can turn them all into h2 instead. It's also not a very useful feature and it will be removed. Google and others said some times ago they are ok with multiple H1 so there is no need to remove them or change them into h2 any more.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr
 
Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:34 UTC
dior707-yahoo-com
Ok!
Thank you very much for such great support!
Friday, 28 February 2020 08:36 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

You're welcome! I'd really suggest you hire a good SEO specialist although I do agree they are hard to come by (if they are any good).

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Best regards

Yannick Gaultier
weeblr.com
@weeblr
 
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