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

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Wed May 24 11:20:00 CDT 2006


> > Does naming the class 'home' carry weight with search engines or non-visual
> browsers?
>
> When I took a search engine optimization class at IWA we were told
> that some search engines did not like to see a class assigned to an H1
> tag.  The teacher told us to modify headline tags by directly
> referencing them in CSS, rather than with a class or an id.  Not sure
> if SEs would care about an inner <.span> tag or not.

Did he also back that up with proof and data or is the definition "you
pay for it so it must be true"? :-)

First time I heard about that. Of course you get the plethora of
assumptions about it:
http://forums.seochat.com/html-coding-11/css-h1-tag-2593.html



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