rainborick - 2:18 pm on Oct 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

From a programmer's point of view, and based on experience with other similar issues, it seems likely that Google will simply pick one <h1> (either the first or the last) and essentially ignore the others in terms of scoring. From a standards compliance point of view, of course, you should only have one <h1>. You can have a multi-line <h1> and control its appearance with CSS, but I think you'd get better results with the <h1>-<h2> hierarchy that others have suggested.