im going to show you how to remove the <h1>forums</h1> tags for members who is new to ipb

go to theme that you are using and find page header

 

end edit the title what it is doing its puting forums as your h1>tags in search on google

and here is the results when you change the title

 

 

i use internet business promoter for my website check

 

 

Surely there's a reason that the H1 tags are as they are?

 

There probably is way better SEO checkers than ibusinesschecker lol  Main ones I would worry about would be Google's XD

ipb has it as <1h>forums witch most member don't even realize that..... it was just a little experiment..

yea there might be something better than i business checker but i use that because it compare's other website that are like mine

and it find keyword that i need..

I am interested in this but can't understand why invision wouldn't have already sorted it so that the important keywords and titles are H1 ?

As mentioned here already, changing the templates should be a last resort. You can edit language variables to change text or hide stuff via CSS for example. 

9 minutes ago, Sheffielder said:

… but can't understand why invision wouldn't have already sorted it so that the important keywords and titles are H1 ?

What needs to be sorted exactly? What’s wrong? What would be better?

10 minutes ago, opentype said:

As mentioned here already, changing the templates should be a last resort. You can edit language variables to change text or hide stuff via CSS for example. 

What needs to be sorted exactly? What’s wrong? What would be better?

So for example when you go to a website SEO checker instead of the H1 title being 'forum' it might be the title of the website or thread e.g. 'formula one racing'

 

8 minutes ago, Sheffielder said:

So for example when you go to a website SEO checker instead of the H1 title being 'forum' it might be the title of the website or thread e.g. 'formula one racing'

That is the case of course. If you open a specific forum or topic, their specific titles will be the H1 tag. 

And the forum index title as “forum” is also a good default, because “forum” is THE keyword for people looking for certain forums. 

You are free to override all that to improve it further. But that can hardly be automatic. 

On 22/11/2016 at 3:46 PM, opentype said:

That is the case of course. If you open a specific forum or topic, their specific titles will be the H1 tag. 

And the forum index title as “forum” is also a good default, because “forum” is THE keyword for people looking for certain forums. 

You are free to override all that to improve it further. But that can hardly be automatic. 

Surely the thread title should be the H1 title?

Nobody who comes to my forum is actually using the word 'forum' in the search that brings them to the site

thats not why i posted this here i think you are not getting the picture its just a little tutorial 

25 minutes ago, Sheffielder said:

Surely the thread title should be the H1 title?

I already told you, that this is the case. If you think it isn't, show it, instead of repeating what apparently isn't true. Or we are getting nowhere.

25 minutes ago, Sheffielder said:

Nobody who comes to my forum is actually using the word 'forum' in the search that brings them to the site

I was talking about the forum index or the site itself, not specific queries. If you run a forum about "Chrysler cars" and people are looking for a forum about Chrysler cars than "Chrysler forum" would be a standard Google query and having "forum" in titles and URL slugs is just good practise. 

only way that forums comes up if someone was looking for forums about Chrysler but if you type Chrysler you are going to get the car dealers you get my point