[thelist] <h1> + images + search engines penalties

[Christian Heilmann]

> > Does anyone have any reason to believe that placing
> > images inside of header tags would have an affect
> > on search engine placement?
> The following markup is taken from yahoo.com:
>
> <h1><img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/
> i/ww/beta/y3.gif" border=0 width=232  height=44
> alt="Yahoo!">
>
> So search engines themselves uses images in headers.

Well, having just started to work for Yahoo, I realised quickly that
we are so much more than a search engine, and in the case of Yahoo I
think it is a different issue. If your client sells mechanical badgers
it might be more important to advertise those in the heading and not
the company name :-)

And not everything Yahoo allows Google does and vice versa :-) AFAIR
there is nothing speaking against images in headings according to SEO.
In terms of _what_ you want to promote and accessibility, it is
another issue though.


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