Primary keyword appears in the page H1
Why it matters
A generic H1 like Welcome tells Google nothing about the page's topic, and the search engine falls back to anchor text and body text to guess intent — usually wrong. For content-driven sites this directly suppresses rankings on the exact queries the page should win, and for templated pages sharing a layout-level H1 every URL competes against itself for the same phrase.
Severity rationale
High because the H1 is the second-strongest on-page signal after `<title>` and defects propagate across every page sharing the layout.
Remediation
Write a single descriptive H1 per page that matches the primary topic, and for templated routes pull the H1 from the same data source as the <title>. If the H1 lives in a shared layout today, move it into the route component so each page controls its own heading.
// app/products/page.tsx
<h1>Best SEO Tools for Small Business</h1>
DetectionPro
The detection method for this pattern is part of AuditBuffet Pro.
The full method (what to look for, pass and fail conditions, and how results get reported) ships inside the Marketing SEO Audit. The pattern definition, severity rationale, and remediation remain openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
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History
- 2026-04-18·v1.0.0·Initial import from marketing-advanced-seo·automated