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Spice Up Your Post With Sub Headlines!

In my previous Active Rain post, many of you voiced your desire to know "a little HTML code" so you could add those uber important h3 tagged sub headlines I mentioned on several occcassions. I confess, I'm a novice at HTML code, but I can wip out some code when I need to and sub headlines beg to be coded with h3 tags. With that said, here are some quick, and easy to follow instructions on using and adding HTML code to your AR post.

Tips to Adding H3 Tags in Your Sub Headlines

To make it easy, write your post first, then save it as a draft
Click the edit button and click the "HTML" code view tab. You'll need to locate the sub headlines you created previously in visual view and substitute the "p" in code with an "h3"
You will also need to close the tag. Again, substituting the "p" with the "h3"in the closing tag (</h3>.
Next save the draft again, and take a look at the saved draft post. You should see a "bolded, larger text" of the sub headline.
Once you have designated all your sub headlines with the h3 tag, you are ready to change the visibility from "draft" to "public" for your AR post. You may have toggle back and forth several times to get the post the way you want it.
BTW-Don't forget to also include your hyper-local keyword references in your sub headlines. It has tremendous impact when your post is indexed by Google.

Add Interest & Some SEO Pop!

Taking these extra steps will help make your post not only more interesting but it will make them easier to read, and even add a little SEO POP to the post as well.

If you have a question, do leave a comment. I'll do my best to help. :)

Bobby Carroll - Dakno Real Estate Marketing

Connect with Me on Twitter: @rewebcoach

P.S. If you own a WordPress blog, be sure to take advantage of the h3 tag in the dropdown in your WP blog dashboard. Most bloggers using WordPress are clueless and never use it!

Posted by Bobby Carroll - Real Estate Marketing on 05/05/2009 01:47 PM

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20 Comments on Spice Up Your Post With Sub Headlines!

MAY

It never really occurred to me to use H3 tags in my blog posts. I always just bold my subtitles, but technically that is what H tags are supposed to be used for.

Hi Ryan - Always great to see you! An h3 tag does more than "bold" the sub head. It signals to Google that SEO hierarchy exist in the blog and that content should be given "special treatment above the content. Therefore it is critical to include your keyword references in your h3 tags as well.

Thanks, Bobby.

I might learn something here if I am not careful.

Nice to see you around again.

Hi Ted - Didn't you know hanging out at AR incorporates the process of "osmosis"? It's all about transference of knowledge from person to person! Ha!

Uh Oh. Better be careful. You're playing with fire. Now we're gonna have a bunch of blogs that look like school kids just learned how to use their large lined writing pads =P LOL

Lisa - You know you're probably right and that's hilarious! LOL! But then again, sometimes you have to tell the children it really is ok to color outside the lines.

MAY

What a great "aha"! Thanks for the tutorial and I am looking forward to implementing h3 tags in future posts.

Hi Heather - Great seeing you here. I'm glad you were able to experience your "aha" moment.

I've noticed over the last few months people starting to do this and I'm starting to work it in. Thanks for the tutorial.

MAY

Bobby,

Thanks for sharing tips and Blog SEO strategy.

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Bobby, Great tip! Once we started using this on our Wordpress blog, we noticed more people were reading and responding to the posts. A lot of us are so busy, we tend to skim posts and the h3 tags really help to highlight the important points we wanted our readers to see. Thanks for sharing this!

MAY

Hi Lyn - The biggest decision one can make about adding sub headlines (designated with h3 tags), is to "Just Do It". You and your readers will be glad you did!

How kind of you Rebecca to feature this post! I'm just continuing the giving tradition of AR. Thanks.

Greetings Raymond - I'm happy to see implementation of these SEO best practices is paying off for you and your blog. When it comes to blogging like a pro, the "devil really is in the details"!

MAY

Bobby,

Great Post. I am definitely going to start using H3 tags in my future blogs and webpages.

Thanks for sharing,

Matt Naumann

MAY

Bobby, thank you for sharing, I love to try new things in my blog. I hope I don't really mess things up.

Scott

MAY

Bobby,

Thanks for the tip. I love learning new tricks that add "pop" without a lot of work.

JUN

Great tips, Bobby. And you don't really have to know anything about html to do this.

NOV

Bobby, I've learned more tech tips since joining AR than the entire rest of my life. This looks pretty easy. I'll try and then if I get in trouble I'll be back.

BTW, I'm looking forward to seeing you at our Crystal Coast Chapter Women's Council of REALTORS. I just heard so I thought I'd drop by your blog and begin to get to know my AR neighbor.

Hi Marian - AR is a terrific portal for RE Pros to cut their teeth on blogging and learn all kinds of tech information.

I'm super excited to be coming to the Crystal Coast for the WCR Meeting in February! I've been asked to share how women age 40-65 are the single most influential group of consumers in our economy. By the way, a social media site like Facebook is a fertile space for real estate pros to engage these consumers. This demographic dominates Facebook with the average user spending in excess of 20 minutes a day there. Unfortunately, some agents are approaching social media all wrong in many cases doing more harm than good! Knowing how to listen for social triggers, and being strategic in their social media plan is critical for ROI. I'm eager to share more on this timely topic!

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