Does the ordering of heading tags matter?

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On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video.

Nik from London asked:

I'm using a template website (I'm an amateur!). The h1 tag appears below the h2 tag in the code. Does the spider still know what's going on?



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