: H1 Tag on Logo in Header So I have a theme that has my Logo as an H1. The logo itself is an SVG file. I am curious if this is bad practice for SEO purposes. My audit shows 2 H1 tags

@Sarah324

The H1 tag for logo is a valid option only if you want to make the logo of some text otherwise you can simply change the css and seperate the h1 tag from it and put DIV tag in it so the alignment is not hampered.

for example:

<div class="logo-collapse">
<a href="https://example.com/" title="My Brand Name" class="logo">
<img src="https://example.com/path/to/logo/logo.svg" alt="My Brand Name" width="150"height="55">
</a>
</div>


as you logo is a svg file it has nothing to do with a H1 tag you can change it.

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@Annie201

The H1 tag needs to contain a phrase of some sorts that directly indicates to the user in text what the webpage is about.

Without this text, robots will have a hard time understanding the page, and as a result, it won't be indexed properly. In fact, it might not be indexed at all depending on the search engine you expect to have the page indexed with if any.

What I would do is have the logo image separate from H1, or if you need the text as part of the logo, you can use CSS.

Here's an example on a valid use of H1.

<h1>Some corporation</h1>
<a href="logoinfo.htm">
<img src="someimage.jpg" width=100 height=100>
</a>
<p>This is a page about some corporation.</p>

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