Firstly, you can look into one of the many, many image replacement
techniques that are about to allow a graphical title with a textual
alternative for text-only user agents such as search engine spiders. I
don't know which is currently considered the best so I can't advise
you on that, but I'm sure someone else can and will.
Secondly, many people are of the opinion that the H1 should be
different on each page - that the H1 should reflect the main heading
of the page, not the site heading/company name. Makes semantic sense
to me, anyway.
I believe that H1 elements are weighted more highly in the search
engines than h2 or h2 elements, for what's it's worth, but from
comments made on this list previously it's somewhat of a matter of
conjecture as to whether search engines pay any attention to them at
all. From comments made on Matt Cutts' blog I think that at least
Google places some weight on them, but probably not anywhere near as
much as on other elements such as the page title. That's really OT for
this list, however... a forum like SEOChat.com would probably be more
helpful to you on matters concerning SEO.
Cheers,
K.
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Kay Smoljak
http://kay.zombiecoder.com/
On 1/19/06, Brewer, Dorian E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using an image replace in my CSS for H1 tags in a new template I am
developing on my companies' intranet site. Our intranet consists of a portal
homepage and hundreds of sub sites. The sub sites header would be the
graphical H1 tag. Every sub site would have a different header and unique
graphical H1.
I am wondering if by using that same template on our public site if it will
hurt us in search engine rankings? The catch is the graphical H1 tag would
be the same on every page since the header is the same throughout the site.
Are the header tags weighed equally whether they are H1, H2, H3, etc.?
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