Invalid H1 Tags

[rmridgew]

I ran my page through a page advisor and it recognizes my header but doesnt recognize the words inside it.
When I took out the formatting tags within the header, It recognized the heading and gave me credit for it.

Do the spiders only give you heading credit if the text within them remains unformatted?



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[ihelpyou]

Welcome to the forums rmridgew! :hi:

I do not understand your question? Could you post the Url you are referring to?

[rmridgew]

I want the keyword relevance of a heading 1 tag but do not want the formatting involved ie: large bold text. So I format the heading using css, so that it looks right on the page. I have a page analyzer that is supposed to mimick a SPIDER.

When it indexes my page with the CSS formatting of my H1 tag, It recognizes the heading but doesnt give me keyword relevance for the words inside.

When I take out the CSS and leave it as (H1 text /H1) it gives me the relevance.

Does this make sense?

www.charlestonfishingguide.com

[ihelpyou]

How do you know if it is given the relevance or not from that h tag?

Why not simply use a smaller h tag? It is a Big myth out there that a h1 tag is best. That is opinion only. Simply use a smaller one. Maybe h3 or h4.

[rmridgew]

It is probably a bit overcontrolling,

but what I like about my page is that it fits the screen perfectly with a 600x800 display, so whatever tag I use I want to format it. so it might as well be a h1 tag.

I was just wondering if anyone knew if fomatting the tag makes it worthless.

[ihelpyou]

LOL. Yes. Some sites feel that they need to make the page fit the screen. In reality, visitors do not care if they have to scroll. Most pages have to be scrolled on the net. People scroll without even thinking about it.

Using css should be just fine with an h tag. I do not use css so someone else may be able to see what your problem could be. I just feel that to use the h tag in the html code is the easiest way and not prone to mistakes as the spiders are robots and do get confused sometimes. :)

[Mel]

Hi rmridgew:

You should have no problem at all using formatted H1 tags.

I would first of all try using another page analyzer to see if perhaps there is a problem with the spider simulator you are using, not all are created equal.

Another possibility is that the page analyzer is not compliant with the latest css standards, or that the way you formatted the css is giving you a problem.

You might want to try defining a class within your css file (say .heading1) and then format your H1 tag as H1.heading1..............

[rmridgew]

Yep done all that I have a separate style named fishing within my CSS and the span is applied to my H1 tag

Hope your right