Duda Website Tutorial: How To Fix The Blog Title H1 Header Defect

Apr 03, 2020

Are you blogging on Duda or are you creating websites on the duda platform that require blogs? I've heard many complaints about blogging on Duda and I'm in the process of putting together an in-depth course or series on how to master blogging on Duda BUT in the meantime, I found an important defect that I wanted to share with you because this may be impacting your Duda blog right now! Let's examine how to fix a Duda blog title or H1 defect.

Hi, I'm Tom Connery, and I build websites for digital marketing agencies and small businesses on the Duda platform? What's Duda? It's the
secret web design platform that many agencies use to provide responsive and affordable websites for their clients.

Duda began as a mobile-only website service because trying to build mobile-friendly WordPress sites was difficult a few years ago. The platform grew to provide fully responsive design, meaning that their websites could be customized for browser, tablet, and mobile.  They branded themselves as a WordPress killer, and rightly so. The reason I discovered Duda was because I had a friend who owned a business, wanted to move off of WordPress, and also sell products online. I chose Duda as a white label solution and the rest is history.

When it comes to most small businesses, there is no reason they should be required or obligated to use WordPress anymore. Not with powerful builders such as Duda on the market. Please notice I said MOST small businesses. There may be some requirements or use cases that Duda is simply not best suited for.

You do NOT need WordPress in order to rank your blog posts on Google!

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So.., the blog. Duda blogs are made up of a handful of areas or settings.
  1. You have a blog landing page which typically contains one or more blog widgets and often a search widget.
  2. Within the blog menu, you can manage posts, update blog settings, edit the default post layout, and also leverage the import posts tool.
For this article, I only want to focus on two key areas of the blog. The first part is the Title. By default, in most Duda templates, the title of your post is mapped as the heading text of your post. Meaning, the large text at the top of your post mirrors whatever your blog title is. It's important to know two things about this header:

First, the header text does not have to mirror your blog title. You can disconnect or delete the header text that was there in the template and create a new one that is left blank or use dummy text like 'Replace with H1'. Just be sure you add a Large Title text widget for the H1.

Now, this second one is critical so listen carefully. I've seen multiple Duda blogs use the Small Title widget as the default header text in the edit layout mode. Why is this bad? Well, your blog article most likely has no H1 text on the page if there is no Large Title widget present! So, go check your blogs and make sure the Large Title text is setup properly within your edit layout mode.

Let's jump over to a screen-share now and I'll demonstrate this for you. (video demo)

There you have it folks. The Small Title widget in most Duda blog templates may be causing you some SEO pain. There's a chance that you may be missing H1 text on all of your blog posts so be sure to check for that and correct it if needed. Lastly, remember that you can optionally use Connected Data to map your blog post title to the Header text on your page. Of course you don't have to do that, but by separating the two you can differentiate your blog title from your header text. On my current blog, I'm using connected data by mapping the post title to the Large Title widget and am trying to write long-tail keyword driven page titles. Overall, it's working pretty well.

If this video helped you and you found this exact issue, please leave a comment below and let me know. It's nice to hear when my content helps someone in the Duda community.

Speaking of the Duda community. I just launched something that may interest many of you. I purchased a license for a user community platform and built a
collaboration hub for everything Duda . Yes, Duda has a good support site, there are some existing groups online you can participate in, BUT I wanted to create a formal user community outside of a social network platform. A place that could have a memorable domain. Where Duda customers can connect with peers, ask questions, partake in quality discussions, write detailed articles if they wanted to, and find the help they need that may not always be available in the Duda support portal. This community is for you. Well ya, I own the domain, but I bought the license for us. I'm learning the community administration and configuration so it can serve us best and it would mean the world to me if you create an account and give it a try. Sure, there is very little content at the moment but we need to start somewhere. Obviously, I'm going to be in there answering questions so don't be shy. I may not know the answer to everything but that's the great thing about a community. As more users join, more experience and knowledge will be added collectively.


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 Also I should have said this earlier but PLEASE note, you do NOT need WordPress in order to rank your blog posts on Google. In fact, some of my blog posts are getting more traffic than my home page or any of my site pages for that matter. I've proven to myself that Duda blogs can rank.

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Thank you for your time and attention. I'll be back with more Duda magic soon!

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