Using <h> tags

<h> tags instead of <font> tags - any problems?

[Katarina]

I just read an old thread on <h> tags - there someone said that he uses <h3> tags as a substitute for <p> tags, ie big blocks of text using <h3>.

What about using <h> tags as a substitute for <font> tags altogether - do you see any problems? I mean something like this:

<h1> Main title </h1>
<h2> Another title </h2>
<h3> Sub titles </h3>

<h4>
<br><br>Text block

<br><br>Text block 2

<br><br>Text block 3

<br><br>More text blcks...

</h4>
</body>
</html>

Do you see any problems with this? Would Google have any problems with text pages like this = all text between <h4> tags with no other font declarations anywhere?

Katarina

[tedster]

I've heard of some research that Google "may" look for <p> tags and reward pages with true paragraphs over those that only use td's li's and h tags.

It's a hard stat to tease out or reverse engineer from spidering data, because <p> tags are so common anyway. But it's food for thought - the numbers a friend came up with after auto-abusing the Google search results for a period of time looked suggestive, at the very least.

When you think about it, there sure could be a useful method to factoring paragraphs into an algo. Most searchers would be looking for written out exposition of some kind, not just tables and lists.