Because SEO has become such a holistic part of website (also based on Joomla!) improvement, it is no surprise that content formatting is a part of the process. The title tag is the most important element on the page. Next up is the first heading (H1), and then the main body of the content. HTML has several tags that define headings: H1, H2, H3 …
Beause Joomla! 2.5 provides only limited SEO functionality straight out of the box and doesn’t allow you to decide where and which headline to use, especially when your favorite template may impose in accordance with SEO guidelines. So what to do?
The Header Tags plugin
In this situaltion good idea will be use The Header Tags plugin (www.conflate.nl/joomla-extensions.html) which gives you more control over the heading tags (H1-H6) in your website. This is a non-commercial extension. The plugin searches for existing heading tags within the selected content area and handles them according to your specifications. So if want all the H2 tags in your site to be changed to H1, you can do this with one click!
The default behaviour after installing the plugin, is checking if there is a H1 tag in the output of the component. If none are found, the plug-in changes the first H2 tag into a H1.
The component output is like the main content section of your website. This way the plugin ignores any heading tags which may exist in your template or modules. If you want to control ALL the header tags of your website, select entire page option. For each tag you can specify if the tag is mandatory, so the tag should exist at least once. If it doesn’t, you can select from which tag the first one should be changed.
Summary
It can be noted that still the most important factor to reiterate to the content creator is that content quality and user experience. Then, by intelligently making sure the right key-phrases are properly used throughout the content, they can help bring search engine traffic to your site.You need to do your best to stay ahead of the others fighting for ranking for their sites. The competition for online attention should never be underestimated. Reverse these priorities and you can end up with keyword stuffing or other spam issues – punished by Google.