H1 Tag in Image - Does it has importance

1 An H1 tag at the bottom of the page would give a clear indication to the search spiders its usage was for SEO rankings and would likely be filtered to zero.

2. Where did you come up with the idea that an H1 tag will increase clicks???

Without some valid proof.... that statement is wild speculation at best.

 

it is more likely that h1 will be recognized and referenced by the search engine. By doing this, combined with the title tags and having the h1 at the beggining of the page, the probability of the search engine to give you higher SERP is higher.

Higher SERP = higher traffic.

no woodoo, just simple logic

regards

 

More traffic does not mean more clicks or conversions.

There is more to marketing than just traffic.

I can show you plenty of shopping malls with a ton of traffic, and yet many of the retailers in the malls are seeing low sales volume.

more traffic = more traffic

It does not equal anything else

 

concerning your formula, I do agree that more traffic is more traffic. But, the bottom line is, with more traffic eventually you will get customers. I deeply support that it is also important to have content in order to attract the traffic to stay and come back eventually.

regards

 

Try turning off images in your browser, then load the w3c.org page. What do you get? The ALT text of the logo image, rendered in <h1> size.

Think about it. What does the spider see? It's not the image.

Using ALT text is correct for accessibility, and from what I've seen, wrapping that with an H1 tag is a perfectly valid way to help define the importance of that text within the structure of the page.

Also, I would point out that since the W3C is the group defining web standards, it's probably incorrect to suggest that they are "out of date in their practices" and "not the best site to use as an example."

I'm just sayin'.

 

Question?

Does Google deliberately turn off images in their browsers (indexing)? It would speed up the indexing cycle.

 

Unique - hadn't seen that before.

Last month, I switched my home page header image to a background and put a <h1> headline of text over it, rather than the previous image with the <h1> headline down with my text.

Basically, I just moved it up, although I could go with two <h1> lines now if I wanted to, and not make the page any bigger than it was last spring or winter.

 

My understanding has always been that the spiders work essentially like a text-only browser. The spider registers that an image exists, and catalogs the name of that image (and alt text if it exists), but doesn't have any means of rendering it. Image search results use titles, alt text, and page context to determine relevance, but nobody actually looks at the image to verify that it is what it says it is.

I will often turn off images and disable JavaScript and CSS to test a page so I can get a sense of how a spider will see it. You get a really clear view of the link and text heirarchy and (in a CSS-dependent layout) how that is influenced by the DOM.

This page is also a useful tool:
http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php

 

H1 tags are very helpful when it comes down to seo but if combined with images its even better so I wouldent change anything unless you notice something strange.