Heading Tags

[Carey]

Could you please explain using heading tags? I thought I read something about not using H1 tag relating to your title, but rats, now I can't remeber where I read it.

Thanks,

[KevinC]

a good rule of thumb is your <h1> should reflect what your page is about and your title.

Of course you want to make sure that the keywords you are targeting are in your title and <h1>

[Carey]

Thank you

[ram_mac]

Also the higher the heading number the less important it is considered within the code and as a result the default styling is that as they go up in number they get smaller. This can all be changed to whatever you want though with style sheets.

[Carey]

Thanks

[BuckerBucker]

Heading tags let the search engine attach some additional relevance to your site by assigning a degree of importance to the words contained within the title of your page. <h1>your title</h1> creates the largest headline, <h6>your title</h6> creates the smallest headline. I'm unaware of any importance placed on the size of the headline. Plain text must be used to enable this feature of additional relevance. Image files such as the wordart programs will not receive benefit of the <h1></h1>.

[Go60Guy]

You might bear in mind, too, that you can control the size of your <hx> tags with CSS, as well as the space above and below the heading. Also, you can use CSS do do headings inline.

[thehittmann]

They dont have to be plaintext either. You can give the hx tags style classes like everything else using css

[Carey]

Sorry for the delay in responding -I want to thank everyone who has helped me in this post. I am in the process of changing my site over from FP2000 to Homesite. Plus with custom orders I haven't had much time to post. :-)