For those who know about the power of these tags I'm surprised to see the VbSEO package ignore it.

Does anyone know of any methods of incorporating this into the board.

Perhaps any post title should carry the h1 tag. This means even further down a thread where some-one gives their post a title it gets h1 tagged.

Search engines seek out the h1 tags, gives weight to the post. In the thread starter post if the h1 tag matches some of the keywords that's even more powerful.

Currently I see <strong> tags in there, maybe somehow to swap them out for h1 tags and define h1 with css script. Where else are the <strong> tags used?

Anyone know about this and what I'm trying to achieve?

The tough part for me is the how? Or how to find some-one who knows that is competant and trustworthy to deliver such to my board.

Thanks.

They are setup in your Relevent Replacments.. If you look at every post and thread page, you'll see them in your navbits like on our site ;)

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I use H1, H2 and H3 tags on all my custom and premade skins.

What I do is write some css (PM and I'll send you my stock code) and simply edit the templates using <h1 class="h1"></h1>, <h2 class="h2"></h2> and <h3 class="h3"></h3>.

So in the navbar template you want to wrap h1 tags around $vboptions[bbtitle] and $navbits[lastelement]. On the forum home I add h2 tags around the category titles and h3 around the forum titles. You can generally do this for all parts of your forum but you've got to be carefull not to over do it as google will obviously pickup on the tactic.

The most important edit is the navbar template which will have an improved SEO effect on every page of your forum (especially threads).

Hope this helps.

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Brandon, I seriously dont understand those 3 options in that thing?

Also, I cannot find h1 tags anywhere when I look at the coding of a page for this site.

By the way, for both of you, what is this all about?

Also, on your sites guys I noticed every post has the same title all the way down the thread,how/why? It's that area I want to h1 tag only.

You see, it's best if it's h1 tagged as part of the posts script. The googlebot is reading the post and giving weight to that sentence and if it also has a few keywords in it then it gets real exited.

It's just that zone I want to nail with h1 tags.

You see, the page gets titled with the first posts title. That is then also in the keywords automatically. Now if down the thread more and different titles were dropped that'd give more weight to google.

Look, here's an example of an ordinary website, mine, the stump grinding page.

Look at the code and compare that to the page, watch the title, keywords and h1 work together.

Brisbane stump removal and stump grinding

Now in the forums I noticed that the first post's title carries <em></em> tags however from the second post on they're all <strong></strong> tags. What this means is any titles used throughout the thread could be tagged as h1's, being smart means strategically using these with key words where applicable.

Take a look at this thread to see what I mean. The first 3 posts I just put titles in, have a look at the coding and see what I'm saying.

Fish cut to avoid splitting when felling - Tree World

So, what do you guys think? Can you help? I need those post titles h1 tagged.

This:

Is the syntax used to tell google adsense where your content is. Therefore you get more relevent ads displayed (a feature of vbseo).

Ditto. Maybe Brandon's forgot to put them in?

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I thought I had them setup in your RR's, I must not have ?

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Yeah, you guys have them neatly wrapped, I got them scattered and hopeless. So where and how do you adjust them in VbSEO?

Also, please do help with the h1 tags, it's really bugging me.

MaestroX, when i look at your sites coding it's so clean and so much less of it than mine ... what you got going on with that/how?

In your postbit template just look for the variable: $post[title]. Simple wrap: <h1 class="h1"></h1> around it and go to your css and use somthing like this:

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Ok

So I found this

<if condition="$post['title']"><strong>$post[title]</strong></if>

What should it be after the change?

How about this?

<if condition="$post['title']"><h1 class="h1">$post[title]</h1></if>

Didn't work, no h1's showed up!

So I put postbit template back to original. Maybe need to change it elsewhere?

Here is some info on h1's

Adding H1 Tags to your Forum and Threads

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