Mutliple H1 Tags resulting in penalty

[William Thomas Jr]

Hi,

My site is https://www.christforums.org. It appears that bing is penalizing my site for multiple h1 tags. I am looking for help in resolving this issue.

Here is what Bing says:

SEO Analysis Detail (Beta)

SEO Suggestion There are multiple <h1> tags on the page.
Severity High
Error Count 8
Non-Compliant Pages 1
Recommended Action Remove redundant <h1> tags from the page source, so that only one <h1> tag exists.

Thanks,
William

[Wayne Luke]

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-14413

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-13934

I have mentioned using proper semantics many times over the years. It has never received proper consideration or made headway among developers or customers. Properly using markup would significantly improve the product though. Both for normal use and in cases of accessibility and blind usage.

[glennrocksvb]

http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/the-truth-about-multiple-h1-tags-in-the-html5-era--webdesign-16824

[Wayne Luke]

http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articl...ebdesign-16824

Would be nice if vBulletin actually used HTML5 but it doesn't and that is what causes the problem. Supporting HTML5 goes beyond specifying a DOCTYPE.

[William Thomas Jr]

For Fyi and future reference:

I edited module_title template and changed the h1 tags to h2 tags

The resulting effect are no h1 tags at all.

Then I went to header template and below after the div id="content" added <h1> my title of the forum here </h1>

Then I went to additional_css and added:

h1 {
display: none;
}

Special thanks to Replicant

William

[glennrocksvb]

Hiding h1 may hurt SEO

http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/54892/can-i-hide-h1-tag-will-it-hurt-seo

[glennrocksvb]

More about hidden content.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353?hl=en

[William Thomas Jr]

Thanks Glenn,

Rather than risk it, I decreased the font size and decided to display the h1 tag.

[William Thomas Jr]

Is there a way to wrap header tags around these category titles? I'd like to wrap them in h2 tags:
Edit: I have figured it out: Vbulletin 5 Mutliple H1 Tags Resulting in SEO SERP Penalty

Thanks,
William

[William Thomas Jr]

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