Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.
Please head over to your homepage, right click and view page source to check if there are any H1 tags. We also have an external tool you can use to check: https://rankmath.com/tools/seo-analyzer/
You can also share your URL if you want us to help you check this.
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
Thanks for quick response.
So SHOULD I have an H1 tag for my page, and just hide it?
example site is here: http://www.awolfram.com or http://www.thegarageshield.com
Hello,
H1 tags are usually useful in your SEO. Search Engines usually check for these header tags while analyzing your page to understand what your post/page content is all about. This is also the reason it is recommended to include your focus keyword in your headings.
If you choose to not include or hide the header tag(s), you can ignore the failed test by Rank math. These are just tests for your reference and the score does not affect your page Rankings.
Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.
Micheal,
That usually irks me about all SEO Plugins (please, no offense, I’m just OCD).
They all show a missing qualifier by not including h1 on index page. Needless to say, it always stresses me out!
That said, if it does help, but is graphically unappealing, how can I add it? If I make it hidden, I get penalized don’t I ?
Sidenote: Not even Yoast or Patel have responded back to this question, so thanks. Why not just remove that option from your ranking algorithm as to not freak people like me out?
Hello,
You could easily edit the homepage template to include an h1 header or if you want, we have a filter to remove specific tests from our plugin so we could help you to remove it.
Just let us know which option do you prefer and we will try to guide you.
Looking forward to help you.
I’d love to know how to add an H one tag to the homepage please, without it interfering with my layouts, and without penalizing for hiding it. Thanks and advance!
Hello,
You can just head over to WordPress dashboard > Pages > Home and edit that page to add header tags as I show you in this screencast: https://i.rankmath.com/aJLiVC
Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.
Ok, completely missing my point 🙁
I know HOW to add an H1 tag.
Heres an example site:
wwww.thegarageshield.com
As you can see, like most home pages, you don’t add an H1 tag, it would look stupid as hell.
And adding a hidden H1 tag, gets you penalized.
So on this example, or heck, on PayPal.com even, how would you add an H1 tag to the home page, get the SEO credit, but not display it so it screws up the page?
Thanks in advance!
Hello,
You could add it and use what this page says (https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/accessibilityseo-friendly-css-hiding/) to hide it (never use display:none to hide an h1, Google identifies it as a bad signal).
But if you don’t want to hide it, keep in mind those are just guidelines, you don’t need to follow them always, they are just advice and sometimes it is better to don’t force the things to get that perfect SEO score.
Looking forward to help you.
So maybe something like:
<h1 class=”screen-reader-text”>Sample Website</h1>
?
If so, that’s a cool trick you may want to share, or offer to include via a settings toggle in a future update 🙂
Hello,
Yes, exactly as you wrote, that is the h1 code you should add (just be sure to add the screen-reader-text code to your CSS file!).
Looking forward to help you.
Actually, that css is part of WordPress since version 4.2 , hence why I would be an easy addition for you guys to include in your WP plug-in
Hello,
Thank you for the feedback.
I’ll forward this to the dev team for consideration and if it is something we are able to implement, we will let you know.
If you have any further question(s) please let us know.
Hello,
The easiest and most efficient way to use H1 on the homepage is by incorporating it into your logo.
If you are using a text logo, you already know how to add it and change the style using CSS.
If you are using an image logo, you can use something like this:
<h1><img src="/logo.png" /></h1>
With that said, these tests in all these SEO tools including ours are automated and are meant to be used as a reference only. If a test doesn’t make sense to you or doesn’t apply to your website – please feel free to ignore it.
The score is there only for your reference anyway and doesn’t affect your actual rankings. Treat it only as a to-do list, nothing more. Don’t try to live by it and don’t follow the tests religiously.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thank you !!
Thats the kind of feedback I was looking for, MUCH APPRECIATED.
That said, it would be nice if this was baked into your SEO client somehow 🙂
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
