- From: Richard Cyganiak <rcyg@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:58:46 +0100
- To: "Sampo Syreeni" <decoy@iki.fi>
- Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
From: "Sampo Syreeni" <decoy@iki.fi> > ><h1>Miscellaneous</h1> > ><h2>Chalk</h2> > >[article] > ><h2>Cheese</h2> > >[article] > ... > My question is, why force a page to have such a common topic? Why > precisely is it necessary to have a common heading on each and every page? How will readers know that you talk about cheese further down on the page? All they see is a big heading "Chalk". This is a very misleading way of structuring your content. The additional "Miscellaneous" H1 heading implies that there *could* be other ideas discussed on the same page. Pages that contain several ideas are trouble for search engines. When you search for "cheese+chalk", you are not interested in finding pages that happen to contain unrelated articles about each of your search words. I'd ask myself what the page is about. If I can't come up with a good answer, it probably means that the ideas on the page are so unrelated that they shouldn't be on the same page. If I *can* come up with a good answer, I put it into the H1.
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