help with H1 issue

not sure what to be looking for on this one

[VegasRook]

Hi guys,

I apologize for not search much first but I am not sure what exaclty I am looking for.

I am trying to alter the properties of my H1 tag so I can use it in a sentence but have it look ok (IE for optimization).

Example: <p>This site sells <h1>blue widgets</h1> all day long.</p>

The CSS I have is:

h1 {
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 9px;
}

However, what happens is the H1 acts like a line break and I get:

This site sells
blue widgets
all day long.

What can I do to correct this, if anything?

Thanks!

[VegasRook]

nevermind.

I figured out the property (inline) and found it in the faq.

Sucks when I don't know what I am looking for.

Thanks WW!

[Soave]

FYI

You will want to be carful when using that technique. Alot of search engines will consider that spamming and they may punish if you use that too much.

[SuzyUK]

Hi Soave..
counter point, As far as I'm aware there really is/has been no proof whatsoever that SE's will ban/punish you for styling <heading> elements whichever way you like!

CSS files have not been proved to be parsed, so as far as I know it's just disinformation or speculation.. but if you've proof then by all means share it..

thanks, Suzy

[ronin]

Example: <p>This site sells <h1>blue widgets</h1> all day long.</p>

Hmmm... you and I know it's not a first level heading.
Any bot which could detect that the <h1> is within a <p>aragraph might suspect the same.

Any bot which detects there is more than one <h1> on the page and that lots of them appear in <p>aragraphs might very well suspect it.

Why not:

<h2>Blue Widgets</h2>
This site sells <strong>blue widgets</strong> all day long.</p>

[encyclo]

Example: <p>This site sells <h1>blue widgets</h1> all day long.</p>

Any bot which could detect that the <h1> is within a <p>aragraph might suspect the same.

The trouble is this won't work because the

<h1>

can't exist within a

<p>

. Don't forget that a

<p>

doesn't require a closing

</p>

to be valid, so the

<h1>

simply (and correctly) closes the preceeding paragraph. What you get then is the problem that the text after the

</h1>

is not within a block-level element any more, and the

</p>

is orphaned. So:

<p>This site sells
<h1>blue widgets</h1>

Is perfectly valid HTML, so can't be detected by a search engine algo as being a problem. You then have a new block which is missing a

<p>

:

all day long.</p>

This won't scare a search engine, but may well mess up your layout as it won't be affected by any styles applied to a paragraph, and it is unassociated with the paragraph before the

<h1>

.

[VegasRook]

I am mainly just playing around with CSS and learning new stuff.

I don't actually have a H1 in the middle of a sentence anywhere.

Thought it would be good to know though for testing pages.

[PhraSEOlogy]

Try this thread

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