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H1 on the page (SEO)
A page without any H1 has no explicit top-level heading in the outline.
Pass condition in our engine: At least one H1 is present.
This SEO check is part of SEO-GEO scoring 2.2.1, last updated 2026-09-18. About 90 percent of the evaluation runs on the HTML we crawl, so you can verify the same pass condition with a free report.
1. Problem description
Some landing pages style a huge <div> as a title and skip headings entirely. Assistive technology then has no heading navigation, and snippet generation is weaker. This check only asks whether an H1 exists — see Single H1 for duplicates.
2. Most common causes
- Visual heading is a styled paragraph or background image text.
- The title is injected only via JavaScript.
- An empty H1 was left in the template.
3. How to fix it
- Add one H1 in the server-rendered HTML.
- Do not hide the only H1 with display:none if it is the real title.
- Keep heading text in the document, not only in an image.
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