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What is the difference between H1, H2 Tag and Alt Tag in SEO?
- Posted on December 14, 2016
- ApplicationsServer OptimizationFreeBSD
Asked by John Augustine
H1 & H2 are called as header tags. H1 indicates the text with highest priority & H2 being second highest priority. Alt tags are used to give naming to images. This tag is used because search engine crawlers are unable ti identify images & hence proper name is given to them in the form of text.
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H1, H2 Tag are used for Heading Tag in website content and Alt Tag also known as “alt attribute” and “alt description,” is an HTML attribute applied to image tags to provide a text alternative for search engines. Applying images to alt tags such as product photos can positively impact an ecommerce store’s search engine rankings. Hope above information will help you. If you want to learn tools and gain more skills in seo then i will suggest you to join seo training course
Header tags have their own place on a page and have to be used in a proper order starting with your h1. The h1 tag should contain your targeted keywords, ones that closely relate to the page title, and are relevant to your content. The h2 tag is a subheading and should contain similar keywords to your h1 tag. Both tags are important an SEO point of view, it will help your site to appear in search results.
There is huge difference between H1, H2 $ Alt tags in SEO. H1 and H2 is a Header Tag. H1 used as a heading tag, and you can use only one heading tag in one webpage and it indicates the text with higher priority. and the second H2 tag is used as a Subheading tag.you can use this more than one time on your webpage. H2 is being second-highest priority.Alt tags are used in the <Img> tag, which is used to give the name to the image, which represents Anchor text of the particular image. It helps search engines to understand what the image is about, it can also help at the times of low internet connection where your image is not downloaded but image text is visible.