Homepage H1 issue

BIUSA · August 2014

On the Homepage (all of the other pages are fine) the H1 title is the logo (which is an image). How do we get search engines to find an H1 title? There must be some way to get around this problem. Can we get the H1 to be pulled from a "fancy title" just like it does on the other pages? Right now, this is what the SEO Analysis Tool shows for our Homepage (http://backgroundinfousa.f17.us):

h1-Tag(s)

This tag contains an image, but no text.

Albert · August 2014

Hi,

we are not sure if you know or not, but h1 don`t need to be as text always. Sometimes it can be image what is more natural and we noticed that google much this kind of h1 tags much more. As we see, you have uploaded logo but forgot about alt tag (this is right place to show text for h1 as image). This text should be setup in Settings > General section where is "Site title" field. Just type this text here and this text will be setup for logo as alt text.

Hope this will help you a lot

BIUSA · August 2014

Well, we use the Yoast Premium SEO plug-in so that's where we set the SEO title for our Homepage. We added an ALT Tag for the logo, but it's still not showing up as an H1 header.

If we leave the Yoast SEO title blank for the Homepage and try to use Settings > General with the Site Title filled in but with the tagline empty (because we want to stay under 55 characters for our SEO title, then we start to run into duplication issues.

Albert · August 2014

Ok. So please send us access to your wp dashboard and FTP on pm with explanation where you added alt text for logo and we`ll have a look on it.

pigroup · March 2015

I'm having the same issue. Is there a way to take out the H1 tag on the logo using custom JS or CSS snippet or changing the theme in editor?

Albert · March 2015

@pigroup No, this is not possible. If you want to modify tags, then you must modify theme files. Thanks!

quib_sandhu · March 2015

This is a serious issue of this theme & and little fix can resolve the issue....

Here... img tag is used for showing logo & text is used in 'alt' tag. which is not considered as 'h1' tag.

Your Code is ....
----------------------------------
<div class="logo">
<h1><a title="..." href="..." id="logo"><img alt="..." src="..." class="logo-main scale-with-grid"></a></h1>
</div>
----------------------------------

This problem can be resolved if.... logo is used via css.... to be applied on anchor tag and text is used inside anchor rather alt.

If code is altered as for home page as....

------------------------------------
<div class="logo">
<h1><a href="..." class="..." title="....</a></h1>
</div>
------------------------------------

It's not a tough task, And I think You can implement it in your next updates.

Albert · March 2015

@quib_sandhu Sorry but we don't understand where this bug is. In our opinion, image usage is much better then css. CSS should be used for backgrounds mainly, not for elements like logo. And unfortunately this can't be changed because most users prefer images.

Thanks for understanding!

quib_sandhu · March 2015

You're right that CSS should be used for backgrounds... but then what is the solution of this major SEO issue... no tool even by google and yahoo are able to detect h1 tag on the page...

As earlier also I've raised points.... this is excellent for design functionality.... but lacks at SEO & Blog point. Even changes are not too big to make this theme SEO compatible...

But don't understand why you experts are adamant in accepting these changes.

quib_sandhu · March 2015

Here is an example... I check one of you latest demo http://themes.muffingroup.com/be/steak/

See the result... and its not Ignorable at all.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7vplfd4wMJUbnhPZnl5U3RtZUE/view?usp=sharing

Albert · March 2015

Sorry but we do not care about all those "extra super" seo tools because all works like robots and check only the same things since many years while seo changes every day/week/month. You can be sure, Google likes our websites where logo on homepage is h1. We know this because we got lot's of websites that are high in results. Also we get many requests from our customers that their websites rank much much better then in the past.

pigroup · May 2015

Have to agree with Quib. Does the newest release have the H1 removed for the logo tag?

Great theme by the way. Just curious.

Albert · May 2015

@pigroup No, we do not have this option unfortunately. We'll consider it while updates.

marianoimrey · July 2015

Any chance of incorporating this feature?

I'm having the exact same problem.

I'm using YOAST so cannot fill the site title in Settings > General.

h1 in my site is logo with title=""

Albert · July 2015

@marianoimrey We added an option for logo so you can remove h1 from logo under Theme options > Global > Logo section.

marianoimrey · July 2015

I cannot find global under Theme Options. Should I update the theme?

Albert · July 2015

Yes, definitely.

marianoimrey · July 2015

Thanks! Updated the theme and now could remove h1 from logo under Theme options > Global > Logo section

What I don't know now is how make Page title into <h1>

Albert · July 2015

Just use <h1> as simple tag in any place you want on site.

Homepage H1 issue

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