H1 or Heading tag is quite literally the heading of your webpage, much like the heading of a newspaper article.

When someone enters your website, they will naturally notice the Heading before reading the content on the page. Search engine crawlers function the same way. When a search engine crawls a webpage its first action is to attempt to understand what the page is about. It does this by first reading the Heading tags.

Important points for writing your Heading:

• Incorporate your relevant search phrases.
• Make sure the Heading is relevant to the content on the webpage.
• Your Heading should immediately allow the user to understand what your webpage is about and entice them to read more.

You should only have one H1 Heading per webpage.

There is no specific size requirement for H1 text. There are 3 factors that affect H1 status:

1) Size of the title's font (bigger = more important)
2) Position on the page (higher titles = more importance)
3) Add Titles using Title Text boxes rather than regular text boxes

To view the HTML website SEO version :

1. Add "?_escaped_fragment_=" to the end of your websites domain name. Eg. www.mydomain.com/?_escaped_fragment_=

2. Once you are viewing the ?_escaped_fragment_= version, right click to View Source Code.

3. Once you're viewing the source of the SEO version, click CTRL + F, and type in "H1" to search for the H1 headers on your site.

The following is a guide to help you manage the h1 for your HTML website:

Title - H1
Page Title- H2
Heading XL - H3
Heading L - H4
Heading M - H5
Heading S - H6

The rest of the styles are mapped to paragraph tag.

Here are some tips about H1 headers:

1. A proper HTML page allows only one H1 tag. If you place an H1 tag in your header or footer or if you marked it to be displayed on all pages, then you shouldn't add anymore H1 tags.
2. If you don't check the "show on all pages" option on your H1 text, you can add one line of text (in a paragraph or title) that has an H1 style.
3. The H1 text should be a single line. if you break lines, the H1 tag will be added only to the top line. If you would like the H1 tag to spread over more than one line simply click on shift+enter instead of only enter.
4. If any of your pages has more than one line of text with "title" style then Wix will mark the top left title as H1 and the rest will be H2.

If you would like to view your new HTML website exactly as Google and other search engines see it, you cannot simply right click on the live site and select to view the source code - this is how it worked for the Wix Flash websites, but not for the HTML5 sites.

To view the HTML website as Google does, simply add "?_escaped_fragment_=" to the end of your websites domain name. Eg. www.mydomain.com/?_escaped_fragment_=

Once you are viewing the ?_escaped_fragment_= version of your website, you can right click to View Source Code, but this is only if you are interested in viewing the source code. Otherwise, seeing the ?_escaped_fragment_= version of your website is a nice way to see how Google is viewing your website.

If you want to check that the correct H1 has been updated in the source code of your site, view the source of your site and follow the instructions to view the SEO version. Once you're viewing the SEO version, view the source of the page, click CTRL + F, and type in "H1" to search for the H1 headers on your site.