<h1> <h2> ?

[Wipkip]

Does it really matter if I put <h2> above an <h1> on a page? I want the second line
to have more importance with the search engines than the top line.

 

[William Tasso]

Does it really matter if I put <h2> above an <h1> on a page? I want
the second line to have more importance with the search engines than
the top line.

stop it - whatever it is you're doing stop it at once.

 

[Wipkip]

stop it - whatever it is you're doing stop it at once.

But it feels soooooooooooo good.

 

[David Dorward]

Does it really matter if I put <h2> above an <h1> on a page?

It wouldn't make sense.

I want the second line to have more importance with the search engines
than the top line.

Target your pages at lynx users[1], the search engine will follow.

[1] yes yes, add CSS to make it pretty, lynx is just a good way to sanity
check your HTML

 

[Mark Parnell]

Sometime around Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:03:47 GMT, Wipkip is reported to have
stated:

Does it really matter if I put <h2> above an <h1> on a page? I want the second line
to have more importance with the search engines than the top line.

Ad David said, it wouldn't make much sense. If you want the words in the
second heading to have more weight with the search engines, then use those
words in the copy, not the words in the main heading.

 

[Richard]

Does it really matter if I put <h2> above an <h1> on a page? I want
the second line
to have more importance with the search engines than the top line.

put what ever header you want anywhere on the page.
the only purpose of the header is to create an appearance and give a
section a title.
you can use any of the six header styles you want at any time.

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

put what ever header you want anywhere on the page.

No, put each header where it is correct.

the only purpose of the header is to create an appearance

No, that's what CSS is for.

and give a section a title.
Correct.

you can use any of the six header styles you want at any time.

There are a lot of things you /can/ do, but most people wouldn't do a
lot of them.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Richard pounced upon this pigeonhole and pronounced:

put what ever header you want anywhere on the page.
the only purpose of the header is to create an appearance and give a
section a title.

The purpose of headers [it's headings] is to give structure to a document,
not appearance.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.5

Read about the forest elephants.

http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol4/html_no9.htm
"The <H1> tag is by far the most important: it describes the purpose of
the whole site. Search engine spiders will use it to score your page's
relevancy." [with excuses for author's use of 'tag' for 'element']

you can use any of the six header styles you want at any time.

...in proper descending / nested order, of course.

 

[Mark Parnell]

Sometime around Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:09:29 GMT, Beauregard T. Shagnasty is
reported to have stated:

http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol4/html_no9.htm
"The <H1> tag is by far the most important: it describes the purpose of
the whole site. Search engine spiders will use it to score your page's
relevancy." [with excuses for author's use of 'tag' for 'element']

And "site" for "page". ;-)

 

[Dylan Parry]

But it feels soooooooooooo good.

Well it would. Here's a rule of thumb: "If it feels good, it is probably
bad for you or morally wrong"