Should I place a <br> within a H1 tag?

Hi

I am using a landing page template where by the H1 title I am going to use is too big/long and thus needs breaking up.

If I place a <br> within the H1 header to split the sentence into two lines, will this affect SEO or will the Google spider still read it as one whole sentence?

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Why don't you make the h1 tag smaller? You can use font sizes for this.

 

Do as you wish. This will have no affect on SEO.

 

make font-size smaller, for example, 14px, 13px ...
you can try it until the sentence is not split into two lines, style.css as below:
h1 {
font-size: smaller;
}

 

Search engines are going to read the h1 tag even when <br> is in it. Not sure if this is w3c validated though.
Like someone mentioned before, you could make h1 tag smaller via css and avoid breaking up the line.
You can also specify the size for other h tags on the page.

for example:
h1{font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;letter-spacing:1px;line-height:25px;}

 

i think it will not affect seo. use <br /> instead <br>

 

if you want it to break between words, set the size on the <h1>

h1 {width: 100px;height: 25px}

Code (markup):

If you want the text to fit on one line, doe as above to make the size smaller

 

Thanks for all your help, I have taken your advice and corrected my H1 header.

 

use <strong> rather than <b>. for SEO

 

Then you did it wrong.

 

Use customize H1 tag with css like:
h1
{
font-size:16px;
font-family:arial;
font-weight:bold;
}

 

Yes you can. <br/> is like content with in paragraph, so you can use it like text.

 

yes <br/> is the proper tag to use as <br> is not closed as it should be

 

Technically, you should never use <br /> for a formatting issue. You really should not use <br /> in headings, paragraphs, etc. just because you do not like the way it looks.

If the H1 tag looks good on other pages, but not on a couple, then your headings are getting too lengthy. From an SEO viewpoint, less is better in this case. Headings that are too lengthy detract from your targeted keywords for the page.

My suggestion is correct the heading CSS so it is uniform across all pages. Then if the heading gets to be too long, shorten it by removing words from the heading.

 

hi,
its better you implement a style tag in that
<h1 style="font-size: 24px">whatever</h1>
breaking h1 tag will not look good.

 

Ooooh Inline styles! Aren't we classy.

And yes, that was a smart-azz comment.

 

You can use CSS to customize your H1 tag rather than use another tag like <br/>

 

I wouldn't recommend it. I would use css and add line-height to it.

 

i dont think there should be any problem

 

This will have no affect on your sentence