[How To] Add H1 Tags to your vBulletin Templates for Long Tail Search Optimization

H1's don't count as duplicate title tags. Those are the actual <title> markup tags that google refers too.

Think of headings as an outline of a document. It is still a logical header even on page N+1.

Oh right, phew for that. Thanks.

One more thing please. For the first H1 tag, i.e. on the home page:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'forumdisplay'">
<h1>$foruminfo[title_clean]</h1>

Rather than have: $foruminfo[title_clean], (where it copies the title of the actual Forum), I'd rather have my own custom H1 text. But when I do that, e.g. <h1>Own custom H1 tag</h1>, it still outputs the forum title as the H1 tag.

How do I customise this?

Thanks again.

Are you sure you are on forumdisplay, and not another page? it's not logical otherwise...

Yes, just on forum display, nothing else obviously, which would make no sense like you said.

Try clearing out your browser cache, and make sure you are editing the correct style.

HELP! I put in the code and it did turn the tags into h1, but now my title tag is H1 and the forum posts are h1. I have double h1 tags. I tried to reinsert your code so that it reads h2, but not matter how many times I save it, it won't change to h2. It remains as h1. What do I do for the update?

It's impossible for us to say what you did. If you changed it to something else and didn't change, it likely didn't save, or you have a hard-cache issue with your browser.

Okay if as Mert states "That if condition method is not compatible with vBulletin 4" how do we get the header tags into vb4 other than using relevant replacements?

I am not sure I like having the extra text above certain parts of my website, so I am thinking of removing the relevant replacements, unless there is a way to hide the rr text.

vBulletin 3 and 4 use different code structure. You need to use correct version according to your vBulletin version.

vb changed their template coding in vb 3 to vb4. baiscally adding vb: to all rules, so
<if
becomes
<vb:if
and so on

Thanks Brian, I submitted a post in the member articles section that shows the updated code for vb4. If a moderator approves it will you check to see if I got the code correct. I figure it would be better to have it as a separate topic so folks like me won't dive into this one and realize in the end that it won't work for vb4.

approved!