Will google penalize me if i style my h1 tags with css?

Will google penalize me if i style my h1 tags with css to make them not so huge and ugly? I'm not trying to cheat google or anything like that but i just want to make the text not appear so big...

 

Hey there,

I really doubt it. I always style my header tags.

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
h1 {font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px;}
h2 {font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px;}
h3 {font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px;}
h4 {font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 10px;}

I would say go for it

Sincerely,
Travis Walters

 

LOL Why should they penalize for using h1 tags

 

h1 tags can not be panalized if u are using tiney texts specilly for your keywords
or if your keywords are same in color as your page color . than you will deffinatly blacklisted in serch engines

 

Only if you style h1 with the same color as background.

 

i saw it on a different thread..

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=513087

and he asked: Would they also detect and penalise if I used < h1 > tag but choose really small font size in CSS?

and then everyone was saying "dont cheat, dont cheat" and i didnt know if they were referring to the question he asked about h1 tags or his first question so i thought that i'd post a thread asking that question just to clear things up.

i didnt think it would matter but i was just checking..

 

Google will not penalize you for that. Of course they will let you decide the design of your pages. They dont care.

 

It's your site. & you can make whatever style you like. I would too say.

Go for it. :thumbsup:

 

Of course they won't penalize you

 

I don't think they should penalize you for such a small thing.

 

You just need to make your site for the end-user and google won't penalize you.

You won't get penalized for styling your <h1> tags.

 

If your website got banned from <h1> tag then all the website in this world would have been banned also.

 

That's true.

Many sites use this methods.

 

you can use external CSS sheet to style the h1 tag and not even sure robots can really tell. maybe they can good question.

 

You'll be fine liberty a lot of people do it.

Actually check out

http://www.cadwebsitedesign.com

they do it and there in the top 5 for website design with us well were number 13 now due to a 301 redirect

 

and don't use the hidden attribute for h1 who the world knows if google sees that as hidden text!

 

Im fixing a site at the moment that got penalized for this. But its slightly different than normal use. Their "SEO" was styling H1 with 1px and had about 600 microscopic words in the page with one shade different than the background.

But you will be fine, just dont try and get H1 benefits by doing your whole page with it.. Stick to using it for headings like they are intended.

 

will not penalize unless you make these tags invisible, hidden, 1px big or anything like this

 

That's because he was trying to cheat. As long as that's not what you're after - make them aesthetically better, a tad smaller but not invisible - Google won't punish you. They won't even object to what you're doing.

Especially if you just set a CSS rule for H1 tags. The other guy was going to either do <h1 style="height:1px; color:white; background-color:white">blah</h1> or in the css have "div .cheatsafe h1" and then code <div class="cheatsafe"><h1>blah</h1></div>. That leaves an easy enough to detect and check foot print, very unlike what you're talking about, which is an honest stylistic change.

 

thanks you guys! had to check