H1 Tags

Can you use them in your keyword title tag?

[JoeHouse]

Hello

Just wondering, is it possible to use an h1 tags in your actual browser keyword page title?

I am not talking on the page itself, I mean when you open your browser lets say internet explorer, the title in blue in the upper left hand corner.

Can you use h1 tags there?

Also how many characters including commas, spaces etc...are allowed in a title tag?

Thanks in advance for your reply.

[Kevin French]

of course you can use them there....but they wont have any positive impact on anything. As a matter of fact...the tags will just show up as part of the <title>.

[Leosghost]

Also how many characters including commas, spaces etc...are allowed in a title tag?

there is no rule ..depends on the browser display and what the SE is set to parse before moving on to the next code area ..
average is about 60 characters including all punctuation and white space ..

less is better ..

[encyclo]

If you are talking about placing h1 tags between

<title></title>

, no it is totally invalid markup and it would have no effect whatsoever apart from possibly breaking your site for some spiders.

H1 tags are for page headings. Even when used correctly their influence is minimal, as they marginally increase the importance of a section of on-page text in relation to the surrounding text: ie. if you put the whole page within h1 tags they will have no effect at all.

[D_Blackwell]

of course you can use them there....but they wont have any positive impact on anything. As a matter of fact...the tags will just show up as part of the <title>.[

Try it out, and see how sloppy it looks. I don't know why, but see it fairly frequently. Don't people look at their own titles?

[Kevin French]

i have seen it all too often as well D. I can never for the life of me understand why so many people fail to do basic QA on their sites.

[JoeHouse]

My Friends

Thank You for your reply. What I am referring to in regards to h1 tags are in the actual title tag in the upper left hand corner when you open your browser. The blue title in the upper left hand corner.

I am looking for any edge possible in rankings and I noticed when I did this: <h1>Blue Widgets</h> the blue widgets showed up normally in the browser title.

Nothing abnormal looking at all. I was wondering when the search engines crawl and pick up this title tag, what will the title look like on that particular search engine result page, and will it help with better rankings?

So my question is then will this have any effect in over all rankings on search engines? Or no effect at all?

Thanks!

[Kevin French]

no positive effect at all Joe

[Leosghost]

And if ever they decide to penalise sites which don't validate -( like their own ...hehehe )..

they might just drop you lower down the serps ..