SEO effectiveness of a <h1> Tag that’s edited with CSS

Hey guys from what I understand <h1> tag is part of what search engine spiders search.. I would like to use <h1> tags in my site for the headers but the font size is huge…if I assign a style to it do you think that will negatively affect the way the search engine spider sees it? In other words..to a spider is

<h1>This is my heading!</h1>

and

<h1 align="center" class="heading1style">This is my heading!</h1>

The same thing ?? Thanks people!


-jon

 

I don't think it really matters, but I suppose it technically could. Why don't you just fix that by applying the style directly to the h1 tag. Instead of .heading1style { } change it to h1 { }. This should keep you from having to apply a class to that tag at all.

 

jpf566 your solution should work fine. I have always styled headers in this way and I have never had any problems

 

Thanks guys! thats what I figued but I just wanted to make sure!

 

Just make ALL the styling with CSS, no point making more classes for nothing

 

There is not difference between the two.

 

both will remain same, you can give style to your h1 tags, but make sure that dont use h1 tag more than once in single page.

 

It'll mean two things to the search engines - and Jack left town. The search engines read the markup and the content, not the styling of the markup (unless they have reason to believe that you're trying to manipulate them, in which case your site will be flagged for human review).

 

Great question, thanks for the answers.

 

Unless you are using the styling to cloak/hide content from humans you will have no problems.

 

Just an addendum here - legitimate uses like CSS dropdown menus, image substitution techniques and so forth are the exceptions to this sage advice.

 

I agree, make use of CSS.