"Skip to main content" link: target <h1>

[NickH]

I'm planning to add an anchor for a "Skip to main content" accessibility link to each of my pages. There are a couple of different ways I could do this. Does anyone know whether Google would regard the first method, shown below, as spam? (Possibly, because there is markup, and not pure text, within the <h1> tag?)

Is method 2 preferable, anyway, from a SERPS perspective?

Thanks,
Nick

1. <a href="#main">Skip to main content</a>

   ... navigation bar...

   <h1><a id="main">Main heading</a></h1>
   

2. <a href="#main">Skip to main content</a>

   ... navigation bar...

   <a id="main"></a><h1>Main heading</h1>
   

[tlhmh1]

Yes, I am looking for the answer to this question too. I legitmately use H1 for the title of my website. I would like to make it a link to the homepage, since standard usability practices suggest the "logo" (which I do not have - I use the h1 instead) should be linked to the homepage.

So my usable title would look like...

<h1><a href="/">Widget World</a></h1>

Will Google penalize me for this?

GoogleGuy?

[jamesa]

I don't know the answer but I do feel a lot more comfortable using naked H1's.

How about giving the H1 a unique CSS id and dropping the <a name=...> tag?

[mipapage]

Didn't we do this thread already? [webmasterworld.com]