H1 Heading

Unclosed H2 Heading

<div>some other html goes here.

Personally, I think without the flexibility some have introduced to the tag, it should just be removed from the spec. The could just be reintroduced if people miss the .

@Dan Calling for things to be semantic is all well and good, but you have to allow for growth. If people find a better use for your product than the one you intended, you should learn to adapt to that rather than fight it. I don’t agree with all or even most uses of the <dl> element, but I’m all for experimentation so long as the page is well-structured.

The page title is usually the most significant piece of information on the page, and so should go in an <h1>.

I know this would then mean that a link to the home page on the <h1> would no longer make sense, but there’s no reason why there couldn’t be a link to the home page on the site logo (if you’re not using it as a CSS background image on your <h1>), or as an item in the navigation, etc.

Of course, the site name needs to be somewhere, which is why I tend to put it in the <h1> element, usually following the page title.

You could also use:

<dl id="header"> <dt><a href="/" title="Site Name - Home">Site Name</a></dt> <dd>This is my site. There are many like it, but this one is mine.</dd> </dl>

As someone pointed out, have you tried navigating a page that used <h1> tags for the site name?

What the code here is describing is not a definition list. ‘Site Name’ is not a definition title, nor are ‘page name’ and ‘page name 2′ definition descriptions for ‘Site Name’.

We should use an <h1> for the most important heading on a page. Matt Cutts says it doesn’t really matter if we have a couple or even three

<h1> elements on the same page (as long as the content they markup is of equal importance); Google will only penalize us if we’re obviously trying to abuse the <h1> element; i.e. not using them in an semantically correct fashion.

The element in the document would usually contain the title of the current page, and often the site name. The first or only

<h1> element on the page should contain the page title. If a logo is required, there’s no reason why it can’t be a CSS background image on the <h1> element.

As far as I understand it, Google likes page headings to be unique, so putting the site name in the

<h1> element on every page will reduce the uniqueness of the content and may do the site more harm than good.

(I fixed that for you; I’m using markdown so that might have been the problem.)