H1 in article page - site title or article title?

Question

Within an article-oriented page (such as a blog post), the

element (level 1 heading) is commonly used to markup either:

• the blog title (i.e

Answer 1

On your blog's home page, I would use H1 to denote the site title and H2 for the titles of the individual blog posts that are published on the front page.

When entering a particular article, though, I would use H1 for the article title and an anchor for the site title.

This is a nice and semantic setup that will also be appreciated by Google when it crawls your site.