Difference between <h1> tag and <head1> tag

[chirosche]

Hello All,

I recently had my site redesigned and after taking a hit on Google recently, I've been cleaning up the code. I found that all my <h1> tags had been changed to this, <div class="head1" align="center">. Of course, I'm thinking this could be yet another factor in my recent drop in the SERPs.

Anybody know if this head1 vs. <h1> could have had a bearing on head tag optimization factors.

Thanks,
Beverly

[davebarnes]

Yes.

Google "knows" that <h1> tags contain something important.
Google knows nothing about the "importance" of something called "head".

[crankydave]

Which site Beverly?

If it's the one I think it is, I looked at the source and there's "plenty" of H1 tags on the home page. I also looked at an internal page and those are screwed up with only the closed tags that were never opened.

What you posted above is a css call.

Dave

[chirosche]

That's cherrysage .com I was talking about. not the healthymway site. Thanks for checking it out.

Beverly

[Peter (IMC)]

Hello All,

I recently had my site redesigned and after taking a hit on Google recently, I've been cleaning up the code. I found that all my <h1> tags had been changed to this, <div class="head1" align="center">. Of course, I'm thinking this could be yet another factor in my recent drop in the SERPs.

Anybody know if this head1 vs. <h1> could have had a bearing on head tag optimization factors.

Thanks,
Beverly

You can also do <h1 class="head1">

[chirosche]

Oh thanks Peter. I was just thinking about what I was going to do regarding edits as I have a lot head tags to change. Hmm, maybe I'll have the designer change them. But I'll wait to see if anything else comes up first.

[crankydave]

What Peter suggested will help.

It will open the closed tags on the internal page I looked at.

Also, it's a good idea to limit yor H1's to a single one per page and not have several of them.

Dave

[chirosche]

Thanks everyone for your input. It's been very helpful. That's why I come here.

[Peter (IMC)]

Oh thanks Peter. I was just thinking about what I was going to do regarding edits as I have a lot head tags to change. Hmm, maybe I'll have the designer change them. But I'll wait to see if anything else comes up first.

Frontpage and dreamweaver both have the ability to change the same string in all pages at the same time. That will make it possible to change all <div class="head1" align="center"> to <h1 class="head1"> (add the alignment to your css). Then I think you do have to go in manually to change all the </div> to </h1>.

Still will save you a lot of time. :)