nested <B> html <A> tags</A></B>

confusing google?

[GamblinTraveler]

Hi Experts, both you new ones and those well seasoned --

I have a few <H2> links on my pages which are <A> anchors to other pages:

<H2>See More <A href="/widgets">Widgets</A></H2>

or maybe:

<B>The worlds selaziest collection of <A href="/">Widgets</A></B>

It seems to me that these tags don't get any weight at all. Who knows what G does with nested html tags?

-GT

[msr986]

I don't see why Google should treat these links or tags any differently.

[tedster]

The document structure seems a bit off in your first example. If an <Hn> tag surrounds a heading -- a phrase that introduces part (or all) of a document -- then logically a heading wouldn't be a link pointing elsewhere - it's a heading for THIS document.

The Googlefolk are quite strong in their academics. I wouldn't be at all surprised if nesting an anchor inside a heading means the H tag doesn't get any extra weight.

[jomaxx]

I doubt the programmers at Google are quite that pedantic.

Actually, I know of a page that has a link within H1 tags, and it does show up as a backlink for the page it links to. As for how much weight Google assigns to the link or the link text, who can say?

[tedster]

I'm not sure it's really pedantry. The whole reason for an algo to boost H tag content is that it IS a heading. If the H tag is being used in a way that's not a "real" heading, then why boost it?

[msr986]

Maybe placing an anchor tag within a heading tag will give an extra boost to the page in the outgoing link! (Not really!) ;)

[GamblinTraveler]

So . . .

Are the tags weighted as <A> tags or as <Hn> tags?

-GT

BTW: My investigations point to neither.