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Run the code through [validator.w3.org...] but make sure you tick the boxes for "Show Source" and "Verbose Output", but especially tick the box for "Show Outline" as well.
On the results page, scroll down through the error list (if there is one) and look for the section marked "Document Outline". If the list there does not look like a summary of your document then you are abusing the tag.
Use the heading tags only on text that is a heading.
It sounds so obvious, but true.
So will having a whole page of text with a heading thats has <h1> tags and the rest of the body <h4> lets say, will that be a bad thing.
Has the new algo shown any signs that it frawns on sites that abusive the <hx> tags?
You can of course get around this by using CSS and making everything look the same size as your body text (which is highly unethical) and this would solve the problem.
That is a discussion for a different forum however.
In regards to your original question I would imagine if Google sees a whole page of head tags then it is going to become slightly suspicious. I would say you should have no more that 10% of a page in head tags, not just because of the logistics, rankings etc but also because of cross browser / CSS compatibility which could cause problems.
Should have been:
(Ab)Use of <H> tags
<body>
<h1>Main Heading</h1>
<h2>Next-Level-Down Heading</h2>
<p>body content</p>
<p>body content</p>
<h3>Lower-Level Heading</h3>
<p>body content</p>
<h2>Next-Level-Down Heading</h2>
<p>body content</p>
<h3>Lower-Level Heading</h3>
<p>body content</p>
<p>body content</p>
<h2>Next-Level-Down Heading</h2>
<h3>Lower-Level Heading</h3>
<p>body content</p>
<h3>Lower-Level Heading</h3>
<p>body content</p>
<h3>Lower-Level Heading</h3>
<p>body content</p>
<p>body content</p>
</body>
That example shows the document structure, and that is exactly what heading and paragraph tags are for -- showing structure.
This sort of thing has inncocent usages.
True, before I knew any better, I was using H2s in CSS small-type paragraphs because it made the font spacing nicer & I was in a hurry and too lazy to replicate it w/ CSS adjustment.
Now I have been moved somewhere near the bottom, which is going to cause a problem if the big sites with "widgets" sees my "animated widget" while it's top and decides it would be good for their site, take the idea and workings, and get the links.
I created an Iframe "animated widget" that people can add to their sites as a link to mine. I put this on my homepage, which is the only thing I've changed. Now I have been dropped once again to a very low PR.
As far as I can see there are two things that might be affecting my index, one is the iFrame. The other is a javascript applied transparent gif pic that goes over a H1. All of the H1 can be seen, and this part passed the manual check after the previous ban.
Does G now read and execute JS? If they do, then the algo would have picked up the image in front of the H1.
Would a small iFrame affect my rankings? both my homepage and the "animated widget" iFrame have been validated.
any help greatly appreciated.
So i think that iframe is not a problem...
I am curious what is the most extreme case of h tag manipulation you have come across?
