Do search engines give special weight to H1, or H2, etc. headings?
In other words, will a headline just set in a larger type font carry the same weight with the engines as an H1 headling?
Assuming that the font size chosen is the same size as an H1 heading would be?
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teammatt3 posted this at 02:36 — 6th April 2006.
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Yes.
If you have heading that is not the same as heading in search engines. Hx are weighted more.
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Henry posted this at 04:37 — 6th April 2006.
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Thanks teammatt3.
I was afraid of that.
teammatt3 posted this at 04:57 — 6th April 2006.
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Why? You can customize the heading tags in CSS to look really nice with your site.
EX
h1 {
font-size:16px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#55555;
}
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Megan posted this at 13:25 — 6th April 2006.
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This is all about structural mark-up. A paragraph with a larger font size is not a heading, it's a paragraph with a big font applied. The Search Engines rely on proper mark-up to know what is important text. If it is in a H1 tag they know it is very important. Otherwise it's just like any other text to them. Remember that search engines see your page just like a blind user. They can't see that you've made that text big and red. They can only see the structure behind it.
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