steveb - 12:45 am on Aug 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

And once again, not to let the confusion above be encouraged... The idea that using H1 will hurt you is nuts. What can hurt you is not following Google's guidelines. Misusing H1 is just violating the Google guidelines. That is the problem. It has nothing to do with H1 itself and it is very wrong to make it seem so.

People should use H1 when appropriate. People should not violate the guidelines of the search engines... (if you are concerned about how the search engine will respond if you do).