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

[Ben Glassman]

In my example, I recommended attaching styles to the h1 by adding a
class to your body tag of "home" (if it was on the home page). That
way you aren't attaching an unneeded class to the h1 tag, and you can
specify what the h1 tag should look like or have for a background
image on each distinct page by adding a class to each page or group of
page's body tags.

Assigning classes to the body tag is also useful for highlighting
current navigation points, and applying page specific styles from an
external CSS file.

Ben

On 5/24/06, Thierry Koblentz <ng at tjkdesign.com> wrote:
> > >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
>
> If we consider that there should be only one h1 per document then I don't
> see a reason to use an ID or a class attribute on that element.
>
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