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Carlos Chacón
06-25-2005, 04:25 PM
I’ve notice some websites that uses this <h1> in the head code. Some of them–over- utilize this tag. In this case, is this another dirty SPAMMING technique?
:confused:
Incubator
06-25-2005, 07:13 PM
In the head code yes...in the body code no...are you reffereing to the headrer section of a sit or just something you saw as you were viewing the source code ?


Cheers

wC
Carlos Chacón
06-26-2005, 02:27 PM
Hi Incubator,

I did a search on some of the major SE and founded a website that shows in the description TONS of keywords. So, I open the source code to verify the structure of the meta tags and everything looks fine except for the <h1>.

This is how it looks:

<head>
<title> TITLE HERE </title>
<META NAME="abstract" CONTENT="ANOTHER DESCRIPTION HERE">
<meta name="description" content=" DESCRIPTION HERE">
<meta name="keywords" content KEYWORDS HERE">
<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<noscript><h1><em><strong>...TONS OF KEYWORDS HERE </noscript>

<body>

So, in this way I may think this is another dirty SPAM technique to get crawl by the spiders.

What do you think about it? I’ll appreciate your comments.
Incubator
06-26-2005, 06:57 PM
To me IMHO, it would be spam...but to some others it might not be. Focus on your body content without trying to fool any crawlers and that would work better. If the site was in flash you could use the no embed tags or in frames you could use other tags, but the work your describing it seems no reason to have it



cheers

WC
Carlos Chacón
06-26-2005, 08:43 PM
So, in no doubt this site is doing spamming, especially because the site has not any flash or frames on its structure. It is a non dynamic website.

For sure! I always focus on my body content. I am not a spammer and do not want to be one.

The weird part to me is look sites like this one ranking pretty much well on the SE.
:cool:
seobook
06-27-2005, 01:59 AM
if all your text is in an H1 tag then the stuff in the tag is given no additional weighting compared to the rest of the content since everything is inside it.

i notice some sites using weird content structures do well, but they might be doing well in spite of the weird code. it is usually best to mark up the code in a way that would be logical.
traian
06-28-2005, 10:49 AM
No. Definitly no. H1 used once per page, right in the title is suggesting google the main theme of the site.
traian
06-28-2005, 10:52 AM
Hi Incubator,

I did a search on some of the major SE and founded a website that shows in the description TONS of keywords. So, I open the source code to verify the structure of the meta tags and everything looks fine except for the <h1>.

This is how it looks:

<head>
<title> TITLE HERE </title>
<META NAME="abstract" CONTENT="ANOTHER DESCRIPTION HERE">
<meta name="description" content=" DESCRIPTION HERE">
<meta name="keywords" content KEYWORDS HERE">
<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<noscript><h1><em><strong>...TONS OF KEYWORDS HERE </noscript>

<body>

So, in this way I may think this is another dirty SPAM technique to get crawl by the spiders.

What do you think about it? I’ll appreciate your comments.

Try to put short word on h1 tag, not the all page. If you put all bidy text in h1 it coul dbe considered spam. I suggest you to use it just for the body title. Not in <head> tag.
Carlos Chacón
06-28-2005, 02:42 PM
Try to put short word on h1 tag, not the all page. If you put all bidy text in h1 it coul dbe considered spam. I suggest you to use it just for the body title. Not for page <title>

Use <h1> for body title? :confused:
traian
06-28-2005, 02:51 PM
sorry, i meaned head, not title
mdsouza
06-29-2005, 02:55 AM
The h1 tag should be used in the body of the document, look at it like when you read a newspaper article the title of the article is larger (h1) than the sub-title (h2) then the content is formated using other formating tags. By using it in the page head like in your example it looks spammy, is it having any effect who knows, but one thing is for sure spammy tricks will trip (filters). Stick to writing good html and content and you won't need to worry about being spammy.