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

Andrew Kamm akamm at demicooper.com
Wed May 24 09:09:02 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

I've seen people do this -- out of curiosity, what is the benefit to making
the image a background of a class/tag rather than just placing it on the
page? If it's an element that is to be seen, and it carries alt text, why
wouldn't you want it on the page itself?

Does naming the class 'home' carry weight with search engines or non-visual
browsers? Wouldn't it just completely disappear if images are not shown?

Just curious-

-- 
Andrew Kamm





More information about the thelist mailing list