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Is the TITLE tag or the H1 tag more important for SEO? Question
I've heard that for good SEO you need both a <title> tag and an <h1> tag on each page. I have pages that are very visual, think full screen map or full screen images. I'm not sure that I have room in my site design for a heading tag. Could just a title tag suffice?
If I do have both, can I make the H1 tag significantly shorter than the title tag so that it takes up very little room?
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you seem to be conflating the purpose of title and headings.
title is literally what you refer to as the location of a webpage.
The contents of a page title is very important for search engine optimization (SEO)! The page title is used by search engine algorithms to decide the order when listing pages in search results.
headings, what you referred to as <h1>, are designed to provide structured indexing of documents.
Search engines use the headings to index the structure and content of your web pages. Users often skim a page by its headings. It is important to use headings to show the document structure. h1 headings should be used for main headings, followed by h2 headings, then the less important h3, and so on.
this is an exmaple from W3 School's HTML Headings,
some differences exist between browsers with rendering, but that is generally how they appear.
to answer your question, it is necessary to have a title, but depending on the displayed context, it is not always necessary to have headings.
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