Most of my web pages have 2000+ words of content which is broken down into sub paragraphs and headings. I usually use the strong tag for each heading and the main heading as an h1 tag. Would I get more hits from the search engines if I used h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6 tags for each subsequent sub headings? Or would I get more just using an h1 tag and then using the strong tags?
And you can use CSS to style all of the h tags any way you like - you don't have to stick with the default.
For instance, I style the main title image of a site in a H1 tag like this:
...h1{background-image: url(images/title.gif);}
and have the HTML like this:
...<h1 title="website title"><span style="visibility:hidden">WEBSITE TITLE</span></h1>
This ensures that screenreaders and searchbots read the title, but it doesn't appear on the page.
And you can use CSS to style all of the h tags any way you like - you don't have to stick with the default.
For instance, I style the main title image of a site in a H1 tag like this:
...h1{background-image: url(images/title.gif);}
and have the HTML like this:
...<h1 title="website title"><span style="visibility:hidden">WEBSITE TITLE</span></h1>
This ensures that screenreaders and searchbots read the title, but it doesn't appear on the page.
Correctly structured web pages with h tags etc. will certainly help. Use css to make them appear as you want... ie. font size, colour etc. This is good practise as browsers display h tags differently. For instance, IE will display h tags in a bigger font than Firefox.
Anything that shows something different to a search bot than it does to a user is asking for trouble.
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Correctly structured web pages with h tags etc. will certainly help
Very imporatant, 'correctly' as in dont stick everything in a h1 tag id not really want to chance more than 2 h1 tags on a normal sized page, then just work your way down fro mthere, maybe 6 h2 tags, after that they mean very little but might still be worth doing just for style formatting sakes.
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valD - id be a bit cautious of that, you wouldn't want to upset google with hidden text..
I'm following web accessibility guidelines; I also have invisible "skip nav" text on another site (again following guidelines). I think that Google's bots can tell the difference - I hope!
id not really want to chance more than 2 h1 tags on a normal sized page, then just work your way down fro mthere, maybe 6 h2 tags, after that they mean very little but might still be worth doing just for style formatting sakes.
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