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_gail -> Heading tags and search engines (9/22/2003 8:59:33)

From the standpoint of a search engines:

- Do heading tags only refer to font size (point, pixel, em) or do they specifiy importance? Or both?

- Must the font size always be in decending order, with largest <h1> to smallest <6>?

- Can I have, say, an h3 tag at 12 pixels and an h4 tag at 12 pixels, italic?

thanks, gail



erinatkins -> RE: Heading tags and search engines (9/22/2003 9:37:43)

Gail,

This article and this article has some information on this.

Erin



pageoneresults -> RE: Heading tags and search engines (9/22/2003 9:54:23)

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- Do heading tags only refer to font size (point, pixel, em) or do they specify importance? Or both?

They specify importance. When dealing with browsers that do not support CSS, they would specify importance and size.

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Must the font size always be in decending order, with largest <h1> to smallest <6>

Font size is of no importance here. The order of the <h> elements is the most important aspect of using heading tags.

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Can I have, say, an h3 tag at 12 pixels and an h4 tag at 12 pixels, italic?

Yes. You can do whatever you want with the sizing of your heading tags. What you cannot do is use them out of order or skip a level, at least not from a semantically correct viewpoint. There should always be an <h1> at the beginning of your document followed by a logical order of <h> tags if applicable.



_gail -> RE: Heading tags and search engines (9/22/2003 10:02:13)

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This article and this article has some information on this.


The first writer says this:

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In conclusion, use Cascading Style Sheets to format your text to account for browser differences. And don't worry too much about the search engines. As long as you put your most important keywords at the top of your web pages and in your title tags, it won't matter whether or not you use heading tags or not.


Unless I'm misunderstanding, it doesn't make sense.

gail



pageoneresults -> RE: Heading tags and search engines (9/22/2003 10:15:54)

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It won't matter whether or not you use heading tags or not.

Uh-hum, I do have proof to the contrary in regards to that statement. Take two identical pages, one with an <h1> at the beginning of the document and one without the <h1>. The one with the <h1> at the top will outperform the one without (with all things being equal).

It has been proven time and time again that utilizing <h> tags in their proper implementation along with all the other elements that define structure, will give your pages more relevancy when it comes to the search engines.



erinatkins -> RE: Heading tags and search engines (9/22/2003 11:26:53)

I agree on using the heading tags. They seem to help.



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