Page has no <H1> headings!!

[akanjee]

I was trying to find some site optimisation advice using software for http://www.universaluk.com/acatalog/...cessories.html and report was “Your page either has no <H1> headings, or has no text in the first heading on the page! It is crucial that your keyword appears in one of these headings. We also recommend that you put an <H1> heading as close to the beginning of your page as possible. Search engines traditionally consider text in the headings to be essential, and having your keyword there will positively influence your website's overall optimality”
How do I do that?
None of my web pages are optimized and I have just used the above page for a quick check.

[Charles Bastari]

Perhaps these will get you started...

http://community.actinic.com/showthr...ht=h1+headings

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=20754

http://community.actinic.com/showthr...1&highlight=h1

There are many others. Just do a simple search for H1.

[akanjee]

Charles thanks for your very helpful reply. <H1> has been sorted.

All of my web pages has java script on the top of pages, is it possible to place it at the end of HTML Body?

[Charles Bastari]

Someone else will have to field this one. It's beyond me.

c

[jont]

Javascript can be moved around (depending on what it is and does) but it will load after the rest of the page has arrived so if on a very long section you may lose some functionality if the user does not realise the page has not fully loaded. You could think about moving them into an external .js file.

Most of the spiders will skip over the javascript to read the <h1> tags but as you suggest it is better to have them closer to the top of the page and not have reems of code in there if possible

[akanjee]

Thanks jont.

External .js sounds OK but not sure how to do it?
Another question, keyword is not present at the end of your page! what does it mean?

[pinbrook]

Another question, keyword is not present at the end of your page! what does it mean?

isthis another recommendation from the seo advice?

I'd hazard a guess that they are saying you should have your keyword present on the page at the top, in the middle and at the end of the page

[akanjee]

Jont, need some direction with external.js file. Did a quick search for this but could not find any basic help. Thanks

[akanjee]

isthis another recommendation from the seo advice?

I'd hazard a guess that they are saying you should have your keyword present on the page at the top, in the middle and at the end of the page

Yes Jo.
when its matter of end of page does it mean end of product description or something to do with template page?

[jont]

Jont, need some direction with external.js file. Did a quick search for this but could not find any basic help. Thanks

Javascript is not a strong point of mine - you really need an expert such as Graham Bradley (kermy) or Norman Rouxell et al

[akanjee]

Thanks jont.

[RuralWeb]

when its matter of end of page does it mean end of product description or something to do with template page?

Your primary keyword/phrase should be in the first and last 25 words of the page. It should also have a 6% wieght in the whole body text.

[NormanRouxel]

I thought I heard my name!

If you only have a few lines of JavaScript (say 20) then I'd just leave them in-line. They won't really affect your page load times, and spiders will ignore them.

If you have <script src="externalfile.js"...></script> type tags then these are already loading external files and are efficient for big files, especially if they are needed on many pages (the browser will cache them). You can be sure that SE spiders will ignore these as there's nothing useful for them in these.

If you really want to move in-line JavaScript to external files then move the bit between <script ...> and </script> (non inclusive) into a file e.g. mycode.js that you keep in Site1 and replace the entire <script ...> through </script> (inclusive this time) bit with

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="mycode.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>

It's best to only do this to code that's before the </head> statement. Also don't do this to any JavaScript that contains NETQUOTEVAR or CUSTOMVAR's.