Google Will Use H1,H2,H3,H4,H5 & H6 Headers As Titles For Page Snippet

By Shaun Anderson	Article Rating:
May 11, 2009 09:47 AM EDT	Reads:	229

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I like finding Google’s limits. I ran a quick test to see if Google will use any Header Tag as a page title if for some reason it does not like the page title element you give it (as I thought it might).

The result was if the title element is malformed, Google will use any available Header, be it a H1, H2, H3 H4 H5 or H6 as the page title.

The snippet below shows Google using a H6 as the page title. Some other interesting observations to follow but for now check out how Yahoo & MSN handle a malformed title.

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Shaun is the lead SEO at Hobo web, a Scottish SEO and web development company. "We’re a crazy-passionate professional full service marketing company in Scotland, specialising in graphic design, print planning and buying, standards based website design and online marketing including Google Adwords PPC management and expert search engine optimisation." Our website is visited by over 40,000 people every month - and we’ve never spent a penny promoting it.

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