Use of CAPS in Web Pages

Many email progs recognise CAPS as spam, do SE think the same?

[hughie]

Many email programs recognise ALL CAPS as spam, do Search Engines think the same?

Reason is, I am building a site for a client and was going to have the head phrase as all CAPS (pure design decision) on the top of the content. Then i thought, but what if google, yahoo and co think i'm trying to spam.

does it make any difference?

ta,
hughie

[Leosghost]

If you mean H1 ..no diff at all ..

Is your customer Nigerian?

[tbear]

Wouldn't know about the robots but, generally, I believe, people find normal capitalisation easier to read than a row of capital letters.

[jetboy_70]

Not a problem as far as I know, but if you're worried you can use a bit of CSS:

<h1 style="text-transform: uppercase;">
Here's my heading
</h1>

Should display as:

HERE'S MY HEADING

According to the Devedge support charts, it's supported back to at least version 4 browsers.

[hughie]

I mean just in the usual text, not in any Hx's. The principal is the same though so it sounds as if it's not going to flag me as SPAM.

No Nigerian banking websites here i'm afraid, although if you are a multi-millionaire, please deposit all your money to:

Hughies offshore taxdodge inc.
Bermuda...

PO BOX 9980 SCAM

ta,
hughie

[Robert Charlton]

I mean just in the usual text, not in any Hx's. The principal is the same though so it sounds as if it's not going to flag me as SPAM.

I don't think the search engines will flag all caps as spam. At this point, I believe that all the engines are case insensitive.

A bigger worry might be that the user will see a block of all caps text as spammy. I myself would avoid caps in the title tag, for example, and I'd never put, say, a paragraph, in all caps.

Generally, I think of ALL CAPS as being harder to read than Title Case... but I've seen some beautiful use of all caps in headlines, which is where I think you're intending to use them.

With the right font (my taste would go toward a delicate face) and slightly increased letter spacing (possible with CSS), you can create a very elegant all caps headline. If it's genuinely a heading and works in the page structure as an Hx heading, that's fine... and it's legit to control Hx headings with CSS as long as they still look like headings.