It is something annoying me that Discourse doesn’t have options or settings to solve this issue that SEO taking care about
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The discussion revolves around the use of H1-H6 header tags in Discourse for SEO purposes. hameedacpa expresses concern over SEO audits flagging the lack of H2-H6 tags on forum pages, as seen in screenshots 1 and 4. pfaffman clarifies that users can use header tags in posts and questions the need for H2-H6 tags, noting their rare use in practice 5. one1 argues that SEO audits can be overly rigid and suggests that the audit tool should allow ignoring irrelevant warnings rather than expecting all pages to conform to every SEO guideline.
Your users are welcome to use header tags in their messages.
What would you like to go in other H tags?
When I’m doing SEO audit for the main page of the forums it is giving me the above photo
I made test for meta.discourse.org
I understand that you’re getting that message. Just because someone suggests that you do something doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea.
What text do you propose be put into H2 to H6 tags?
Note that H4 to H6 tags are fairly rarely used, so unless you contrive to stick stuff in them, you’re still going to get a warning for those. You’ll be hard pressed to find any pages on the internet that use all 6 H tags.
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Honestly, those SEO audits can be a waste of time. Not all pages of a website will have need for the things an SEO audit is looking for.
I would turn this around and say that whatever SEO audit program you are using should have an option to ignore irrelevant things on specific pages. It’s a shortcoming of the audit, not the Discourse site.
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