H1 Tag vs. CSS

[mktgbill]

A quick question for wpw forum watchers.

Which is more effective H1 heading tags or use of CSS to size headings? My understanding is that Google doesn't look at external CSS files so would on page Heading Tags be more effective? And, are Heading Tags generally more effective than standard bolded and enlarged type?

[KeithO]

use h1 tags and resize them in the css.

[Chris]

bingo

[dmcghie]

Yup, resize them in CSS and colour them and background colour and bold or underlined and and and........

I just love CSS and one can do all changes site wide with just one short change in the CSS file.

Dani

[dmcghie]

Actually another question from me:

I use h1, h2, h3 h4 to give headers in different parts of my site different colours, but all are the same size. So far the browsers I used supported it.

But is it OK to do so, say have a h4 which is huge show up as a h1 in a browser?

I did this so that I would only need one style sheet for the whole site, which has 4 sections but each is colour coded so people know where they are for each subject.

Dani

PS I think my questions got answered already but just double checking. ;-)

[mktgbill]

But, will the search engine spiders that give higher rankings for keywords in H1 tags also recognize the CSS in a similar manner?

[Chris]

But, will the search engine spiders that give higher rankings for keywords in H1 tags also recognize the CSS in a similar manner?

yes, because in the HTML, it still reads like an H1 tag, which is what the SE spiders are looking for.

[KeithO]

Actually another question from me:

I use h1, h2, h3 h4 to give headers in different parts of my site different colours, but all are the same size. So far the browsers I used supported it.

But is it OK to do so, say have a h4 which is huge show up as a h1 in a browser?

I did this so that I would only need one style sheet for the whole site, which has 4 sections but each is colour coded so people know where they are for each subject.

Dani

PS I think my questions got answered already but just double checking. ;-)

create different classes for each section and recycle the h1 tag.