HTML Headings: 5 Mistakes That Tank Your SEO

TL;DR HTML headings are not just big bold text. They are the invisible architecture Google and screen readers use to understand your page. Most beginners are making at least three of these five mistakes right now without realizing it. One of them quietly destroys your search rankings every single day. The Problem Nobody Warns You About You learned HTML. You know <h1> is big and <h6> is small. You figured headings were basically just font-size shortcuts, so you picked whichever one looked right in the browser. Same. We have all been there. Here is what nobody told you: Google reads your heading structure like a table of contents. Screen readers use it like a navigation menu. And when that structure is broken, your page quietly pays the price in rankings, accessibility scores, and bounce rates. The frustrating part? The fixes take about five minutes once you know what to look for. Let us go through the five mistakes beginners make with HTML headings and exactly how to correct them. Mista