Headings and Titles
You will see various references to Headings and Titles when you create and edit Articles and Menu Links.
Understanding how Headings and Titles work will improve your website's accessibility and its performance in search results.
Accessibility
If you want to gain a better understanding of what is meant by Accessibility then please refer to this website's Accessibility Statement.
Read more: Accessibility Statement.
Some Definitions
Article Title
The Article Title is the name of the Article as listed in the Articles screen of your website's control panel.
Add text to the Title field to create the Article Title.
By default the Joomla! CMS will display the Article Title as a H1 Heading in the Front End.
This is good because search engines penalise website content that does not prominently display a H1 Heading.
Accessibility is also impeded when content is not structured using H1, H2, H3 and so on Headings.
The very first line in every Article should be a H1 Heading.
Article Title and SEO
A good H1 Heading for SEO should reflect the text you add to the Article's:
- Meta Title field,
- first sentence below the H1 Heading,
- Meta Description field.
