Question : SEO: <h1>, <h2> still important?

Is

and

at the top of a web page with keywords included still increasing rankings?

Answer : SEO: <h1>, <h2> still important?

Every search engine has it's own algorithm to determine relevance and importance. The last time I was specifically reading about Google; in the Hilltop paper (Bharat and Mihaila), the title, headings (e.g., text within a pair of

tags) and anchor text within the expert page are considered key phrases, which google uses to map keywords to documents that have authority on a specific topic.

Source: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~georgem/hilltop/ (Section 2.3)