# H1 Header Tag Usage & H2-H6 Header Tag Usage for SEO purposes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/h1-header-tag-usage-h2-h6-header-tag-usage-for-seo-purposes/386803
**Category:** Community Building
**Tags:** seo
**Created:** [27 oktober 2025 om 11:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/h1-header-tag-usage-h2-h6-header-tag-usage-for-seo-purposes/386803 "2025-10-27T11:23:54Z")
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### Author: ![hameedacpa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hameedacpa/32/520681_2.png) [@hameedacpa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hameedacpa)
#### Post date: [27 oktober 2025 om 11:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/h1-header-tag-usage-h2-h6-header-tag-usage-for-seo-purposes/386803/1 "2025-10-27T11:23:54Z")

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It is something annoying me that Discourse doesn’t have options or settings to solve this issue that SEO taking care about

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/7/a/97aaef4bdf24363d5bb93e9fd147c79a2740e433.png)

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [27 oktober 2025 om 13:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/h1-header-tag-usage-h2-h6-header-tag-usage-for-seo-purposes/386803/2 "2025-10-27T13:46:32Z")

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Your users are welcome to use header tags in their messages.

What would you like to go in other H tags?

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### Author: ![hameedacpa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hameedacpa/32/520681_2.png) [@hameedacpa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hameedacpa)
#### Post date: [27 oktober 2025 om 18:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/h1-header-tag-usage-h2-h6-header-tag-usage-for-seo-purposes/386803/3 "2025-10-27T18:14:34Z")

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When I’m doing SEO audit for the main page of the forums it is giving me the above photo

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### Author: ![hameedacpa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hameedacpa/32/520681_2.png) [@hameedacpa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hameedacpa)
#### Post date: [27 oktober 2025 om 18:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/h1-header-tag-usage-h2-h6-header-tag-usage-for-seo-purposes/386803/4 "2025-10-27T18:17:36Z")

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I made test for [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/c/5/7c5f3848ff713c01fd28dbc390b17cf60c124df4.png)

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [27 oktober 2025 om 18:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/h1-header-tag-usage-h2-h6-header-tag-usage-for-seo-purposes/386803/5 "2025-10-27T18:42:56Z")

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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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### Author: ![one1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/one1/32/493591_2.png) [@one1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/one1)
#### Post date: [28 oktober 2025 om 00:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/h1-header-tag-usage-h2-h6-header-tag-usage-for-seo-purposes/386803/6 "2025-10-28T00:53:42Z")

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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.