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

Ben Glassman bglassman at gmail.com
Wed May 24 14:34:30 CDT 2006


Yes, nothing would be visible to the user if images are completely
disabled. However the number of people browsing the net with images
disabled complete and CSS enabled is pretty small.

In this case you should probably just stick the image in the h1 tag
along with the text, since they both probably belong there.

If the image was the tag itself (i.e. it was the text for the h1 tag)
then you would maybe make it a background of the h1 tag and put live
text in the h1 tag and use css to hide the text because that way
search engines see/read text, and so do users with older browser or
mobile devices.

On 5/24/06, Andrew Kamm <akamm at demicooper.com> wrote:
>
> > 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-
>
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