Page 2 - <h1> Heading and forcing a font size

Appreciate it guys!

Now I have a small problem. You see I'm trying to make my first words of the page <h1> in order to have good ranking for these terms.. And then make them smaller in CSS. But IE (not netscape) continues to enlarge the height of the table as if it was really H1. I see the text small but the table's height is big. I tried everything but it doesn't work. Maybe you should take a look. Or I should keep it ugly and remove it after the deep crawl? So it will consider the H1 for the next dance?

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Thanks!

I looked at your site and I see the problem you are talking about. I also saw how you desire to have it by looking at some of the other pages on your site.

Try using the word-spacing, text-indent, line-height, margin and padding attributes in the CSS and see if that makes a difference. If you look at the sample I posted a few messages back in the thread you can see how I set up my CSS

FIXED thank you man! I added all these :

text-indent: 0;
line-height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;

I looked at the page and itl looks great. Glad I could help.

Is there a way to keep it from line-breaking?

display: inline;

lol, oops, the power of google

Will an <H1> tag with a class have the same effect with google as an <H1> tag that is not a class?

Does H1 count + <b> for the same keywords.

for example : <H1><b>My targeted keywords</b></H1>

Does H1 count? Is it better than just <h1> when I add the Bold?

Thanks!

Also here are some more tips on h1 tags

1. It's better to have the first sentence of your text with <h1> tags. Google gives it HIGH priority. Don't just stuff keyword phrases in. Use keywords in it, but make it sound like it makes sense.

2. Well, if you have a image first. Most people have it at top left because of there logo. Don't use ALT tags for them. Google does look at them, but DON'T give credit for it. so make something like this

<a href="index.htm" title="Logo"><img src="logo.gif></a>

Look at the above example. DON'T use alt tags. Use TITLE attributes. Google looks at that with kinda high priority too. I have experimented this

Hope this helps guys
Darkroom (SEO)

I don't understand what forcing font size means and its impact in SEO - I use h1 on my pages - are they not being recognized by frontpage formating issues ?

Rolfi

h1 tags are fine, if you can accept the size of the things. ;ost can't, and as mentioned earlier in this thread, they will redefine the h1 tag using css to make it less of an eye sore.

Frontpage has nothing to do with it. Personally I wouldn't touch the thing with a barge pole, but I guess it is what you are used to .-)

Not a big fan of Frontpage Webby??

I think that's understatement od the year spherica :-)

Nothing personal, but when I write code I like it to not to chang by the program I'm using on hitting the save button. know what I mean? lol. You would if you'Ve ever tried to code using the thing :-/
And talk about code bloat!.. *rant*.. *rant*. ...

Right said Webby,

Most of those WYSIWYG web designing programs stuff your pages with lots of unwanted/useless code, and make changes in your code as they wish! In most of the cases that makes the page load slower or if you are using PHP or ASP you end up with lots of broken codes!

I personaly prefer using a simple text editor to any other program. Notepad has been my favourite since 1995 and still is.

There are also lots of other free to use text editors like PHP coder, you can find them at zdnet.com, or if you want to spend some money HotDog is another one to use.