H1-H6 Styling & SEO Best Practices

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Hi All,

We have a dev team building us a big site on Webflow, and we’ve found during QA that they have not set global H1-H6 with any style classes. Meaning, they have a bunch of different classes that are used to style various parts of text on the pages, but none of them are connected to H1-H6.

My understanding that the best approach is to style H1-H6 so that, by default, our H1 will be the largest text on the page, the H2 will be subtitles, and so on. I am not a developer, but my understanding is that this is the most common practice and is best for SEO.

I asked the dev team about this, and they said that it actually gives us more SEO flexibility being able to assign H1-H6 to any text element on the pages. On one hand, I get that. On the other, I am worried it will hurt our SEO performance to assign H1/H2/H3 (especially) to whatever elements we think will work best for SEO.

Has anyone else encountered devs that prefer to do this? Should I be worried?

Thanks so much!

J.

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Yes they are right, as long they have set h1-h6, which in webflow will be
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you are good to go.

The style class as the name suggests, is just the visual style.

Although if someday you want to change the visual of these tittles in a easy way, well thats where styles come in handy, therefore I recommend you to have them.

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Thank you so much! That’s really helpful.