we are just in the process of developing a custom Ghost theme. Turning on the comments feature I found that the header “Start the conversation” is a H1. Imo this is loaded from Ghost, so I can not see anything how we messed this up. Any ideas, did anyone experience similar issues?
I hope there is more attention on this. Microsoft Bing takes this very seriously…
Ghost comments are running inside an iframe. So technically, it’s a separate webpage than the page it’s embedded.
Did you notice any SEO tools or search engines complain about this?
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Yes, Bing saying there are multiple H1 tags in the same page. But it’s not on all… you can see that in Bing Webmaster Recommendations. Or Pages without H1 like the homepage/tags/author.
Are you sure it’s because of the comments? I enabled Bing Webmaster tools for one of my websites that has comments enabled, but there is no complaints about multiple H1 titles at all.
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That’s exactly the reason (→ “Ghost comments are running inside an iframe”) which leaves me puzzled. But I also checked in a clean Ghost setup, it seems always to be an H1. Can anyone confirm this?
I see an H1, but because it’s in an iframe, that should be valid. Could this be a Bing quirk?
I’m also surprised your theme isn’t including an H1 on all pages including index and tag pages. It should be. Which theme?
I am not seeing this yet in any tool. I juts noticed it during development. So the good news is: I did not mess up anything.
Though I am still curious if anyone with a live setup can report how this is seen from Google Search Console perspective. And just from a semantical and structural perspective it imo make sense for the iFrame as a standalone element, but not as an embedded element into a post?
From my experience Google doesn’t care that much with this.. It’s more about Bing
I’m using Casper Casper - no H1 on the tags pages…