How to use Heading tags in Blogger posts

If you often write long blog posts, it's very important to structure them right so both your visitors and Google can read them more easily. That can be done e.g. with the right use of headings and subheadings. In this post I will show you two ways on how to use heading tags in Blogger and give your blog posts a better structure.

SEO tip: A logical hierachy of heading tags both in your template and your blog posts is very important for the SEO friendliness of your blog. Using headings and subheadings makes search engines understand the structure of your site (or post) and which parts are more important than others.
You should always use subheadings (h2, h3, h4) in your blog posts - the most important heading h1 is your post title, it's shouldn't be used in blog posts!

2 ways how to add headings to your posts in Blogger

1. Through Blogger's Post Editor



There is a simply function in Blogger's post editor that makes it more than easy to add heading and subheading tags your posts. Highlight the words you want to put in the heading and in the settings (see picture) select 'Heading' for a h2 heading, 'Subheading' for h3, and 'Minor Heading' for h4. That's all.


2. Through code


Another way of adding heading tags is to insert them directly in the code. Therefore, you have to switch to the HTML text in the post editor (in the left corner, there is a button called 'HTML'). Then search for the text of your heading and wrap it in the tags you want to have. Example in the picture above, there's a h2 tag:
<h2> YOUR HEADLINE TEXT</h2>