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

Ben Glassman bglassman at gmail.com
Wed May 24 08:48:24 CDT 2006


I think you can solve your problem by simply moving any image into the
background property of the H1 is question. For example if you wanted
the company logo in the H1 on the homepage, just give the body a class
of "home" on that page, and use the descendent selector to do
something like this

body.home h1 {
padding-left: width of logo;
background: transparent url(file.name) no-repeat top left;
}

Ben

On 5/24/06, Christian Heilmann <codepo8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone have any reason to believe that placing images inside of
> > header tags would have an affect on search engine placement?  Is it
> > frowned upon by search engines?
> >
> > I understand the semantics of header tags - that header tags are meant for
> > text, designating hierarchy, structure, etc.  So, with that in mind, this
> > WOULD be a bad idea:
> >
> > <h1><a href="http://www.company.com/" name="home" id="home"><img
> > src="path/to/logo.gif" alt="company name"></a></h1>
> >
> > But what if you have an image and text in the header:
> >
> > <h1><a href="http://www.company.com/" name="home" id="home"><img
> > src="path/to/logo.gif" alt="company name"></a> Header Keyword Text </h1>
> > <p>Example...</p>
> > <p class="link"><a href="link.html" title="Company Keyword">Company
> > Keyword Link</a>
> > Does anyone have details supporting whether or not search engines penalize
> > for images inside of header tags?
>
> Why would they? Search engines are concerned about the text you put
> in, not what image you put in.
>
> IMHO the H1 should be the heading of the current document, not the
> company logo - which is something like a heading for the whole site
> though. Using the H1 for the company logo limits you in terms of SEO,
> as you cannot have different headers for each page. In your second
> example that would happen, however it will result in the company name
> being part of the heading all the time and may lessen the impact of
> the real text.
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