Font size won't make a single difference to the search engines DIRECTLY unless you're trying to deliberately spam the search engines (1px tall fonts for example) in a pathetic and vain attempt to rank better. It will, however, be influenced by the people who link to (or refuse to link to) your site because the text is too hard to read by the person who owns the site, posts in a forum thread, blog comment, etc... (in other words, make sure your text is readable, and can be resized easily). Exactly. Don't use pixels for fonts - they cannot be resized in Internet Explorer and there are people with poor vision who may need to increase the text size in the browser (or just on that page) to read what's there. I'm one of them (I'm only 28 years old yet my eyesight is -550 in each eye plus I have astigmatism if that means anything to you). There is no such thing as Web 2.0 design. Web 2.0 at its core is just a new means of sharing and transferring information, and making said information as accessible as possible. You know, things that should have been done since Day 1. But as far as your tags are concerned, it's not that they're important to SEO (they are), but it's how they're used - you'll have far better results if you use the elements properly rather than how you think they should be used (it's called semantics). H1 is a top level heading, which makes it ideal for use as the title of a Web page (inside the <body></body> tags obviously). Use it as such. Try increasing the .dpi settings on your monitor from 96 to 120 (if using Windows) or from 70 to 100 (if using Linux). Exactly. Not just for search engines (which will be able to better understand the relationships between the code and content), but also for other users as well. No, you can't. In fact, if your font size is set to 100pt (which is best used for print, not the Web), your Web site will be unusable, and the only inbound links you'll probably get will be from www.webpagesthatsuck.com (that is not my site). Actually search engines rank B (only slightly) better than STRONG. But most of the time you should use STRONG anyway, since you're placing "strong emphasis" on a string of text in the first place. In other words, use the elements as they were meant to be used (pretend there's a warning on each element that reads "It is a violation of Federal Law to use this HTML element in a manner inconsistent with its labeling." if it'll help you). It's only useless if you abuse it. Used properly, they'll serve you well. If you don't know anything about HTML and semantics, I strongly suggest you learn. Use it appropriately actually. As I said earlier, it's best used as a page title (inside the content area), since it's a top-most heading. Are you using them as sub-headings for your properly structured and semantic pages? Not entirely correct. 12px should be the minimum, with 14 being acceptable and 16 the standard; HOWEVER, the best thing to do is not to use pixels at all for your font size - let the user decide. I set a font size of 85% along with a leading (line-height) of 1.4 (or 140%) in the body rule in my stylesheet, then use EMs for the containers and text inside my pages so that people can resize the text (and the entire layout) to best match their needs.
Getting chewed out by a semantics nazi. (Seriously, other than that, there's no real "effect", but it does show a lack of regard for semantics, typographical conventions, and Web standards.)
I have sIFR which is a image replacement technique which makes text more readable http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr does this affect seo ?
sIFR shouldn't affect your site's SEO if used properly. Though I really see no reason to use sIFR in the first place (it's not the concept that turns me off, it's the code bloat).
Hey Dan.. I hate sites which use sifr .. u cant select text !! damn.. who wants to look at flash text
Size matters!! - Sounds familar? Well, doesn't matter that much for google. SEO <h1><h2><h3> etc, and have a sematic coding, that might help, having huge font sizes that piss of visitors is not good.. Cheers *hicup* - Scorpionno
it wouldn't effect anything when it comes to seo but it would effect on the readers reading the content of your site because it is so hard to read a small text in your website, so instead of reading the content the readers will just browse your site and leave the site without reading the content. so what the sense of creating an article for your site and blog if the readers wont be able to read it so when you make a site make sure that the content is readable.