SEO is a very integral part of web development today, and to keep it running smoothly there are many features attached with it. One of the most prominent among all these is the usage of H1 tags used in the body of a website. It is generally referred as one of the simplest of header found in a web page. The basic motive behind putting the H1 tags in a certain web page is to make the search engine understand about the details of content that the site has. A well coordinated use of H1 tags with anchor text & title tags increases the probability of vast inflow of traffics into the website from various search engines like Google, Yahoo & MSN.

If someone traces the last few years he would see that the demands of Google has been very much uprising, and to cope up with that the use of H1 tags has enhanced in a great way. H1 tags have great importance if compared with mete tag and description meta tag. To get the best benefits form the usage of H1 tags one should concentrated upon putting them in header above the content.

As per the experts of the game it is very much mandatory to exclude the HREF links from the tag. Whenever someone keeps a link in H1 tag, the search engine in process gets the impression that the linked web page is more important then the other page. Those wanting to keep a descriptive link to their own page can use the link along with proper anchor text including content of that particular web page. The tags developed by h1 are of largest form, and are very important requiring being used independently having same HTML commands.

Certain things have to be kept in mind while using the H1 tags. Firstly the header tag has to be placed at the top of the web page. This is done as because when Google scans through a web page, it makes its way from top left to the bottom right of the page. To make sure the scanning of Google beneficiary for the web page it is better to place the header tag at the right place i.e. at the top for best result. All this is only because any search engine does not go for the graphical representation of a website rather it goes through the textual one. H1 tags also comprise of some attributes having higher level of suitableness like the Class, Align and ID attributes.

To highlight the content of the web page the best way is to put the H1 tags where they (i.e. content) are. H1 tag is generally placed at the top left side or middle part of the web page as the contents are basically found in that part only. One can even use the H1 header tag as the tile for the content present in a certain web page.

Construction of same heading tags having sub-keywords is also possible. To make the texts look different in the tags they are made bold, thus they get easily differentiated from the rest of the text of the web page. So for making the visibility of the texts more to the search engines it is the best way to use H1 header tags.