Is this a bad SEO method?

At the top of my website I want a message like this:

'Welcome to the leading <keyword> website.'

But I want to place <h1> tags around the keyword in that message
however the H1 tag will be styled so that it won't be any bigger than
the normal font size of my site but it might be bolded. Can this be
seen as black SEO? And can I be penalised for it?

 

Why not just H1 the whole shebang and style it rather than just the keyword - then it's not an issue. However, trading standards might want know why you're the leading site?

 

yeah man thats black hat... just put the whole title in the heading tag. If you want to strengthen the keyword just shorten the heading

 

Unless you specify the whole line to be H1, it is seen as a black hat method.

 

Thank you, this is what I have now done. Although will it still help my SERPS considering how long it is?:

<h1>Welcome to the leading <keyword> <keyword> <keyword> website. Sign up and chat with us now!</h1>'

 

yeah the keywords will be diluted slightly but it all still counts

 

nobody can predict when and how a site will be penalised because search engines can never disclose their alogorithms.

 

taken from the google webmaster guidelines:

they never disclose their algorithms but they're pretty straight forward about what you can and can't do

 

but they give clear examples of what not to do

 

No, it's not a blackhat technique, SEO expert use h1 and bold tags to emphasize the keywords using CSS so that the content will look nice and clean.

 

The way he described it origially is blackhat. It's not semantically correct and was only done for the sole purpose of manipulating serps.

 

So you mean if I'm using CSS in my site it is considered as blackhat technique if I put h1 tag or bold tag on my keywords.

For example This is my <b>keywords</b>

Is this a blackhat technique?

 

To Janna122003
are you sure that it is not black hat as i have used the same technique?
i have only used the keywords in h1 and they are coming on the whole site plus they have been linked to home page to boost ranking.
Please tell and if you have any proof i will be highly thankful to you.

Thanks

 

Of course NOT black hat.....Code it with css and put it in external file.... H1 is for emphasizing a keywords or keyphrases. one of the most hot pick of SE for SERP. It is like emphasizing an important word....

see this link what is importance of h1 in SERP Google especially..

link: http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/internet/google-ranking-factors.htm

 

This is NOT Black Hat, I have seen this on so many wordpress sites.

 

no im talking about what he originally described as black hat. eg: "Welcome to the leading <h1>keyword</h1> website". which should be "<h1>Welcome to the leading keyword website</h1>"

what your doing is fine, although <b> tags are depricated and are only for aesthetic purposes like the 'font-weight:bold;' in CSS.

if you want to put emphasis on keywords use <strong> which does the same thing as <b>, as with <em> (emphasis) instead of <i>

 

Don't use that trick it will be better.

This is not going to help you much in getting high search engine ranking.

Rather than using this trick try to maker some useful related links and get some hits.

Thanks

 

Ok. Thanks, I understand now.

 

LoL Its not BlackHat, in fact many people are doing this... its basic SEO optimization.... soon you guys will be saying putting you keywords in your title tags is blackhat. ROFL