Sofeboobvob
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1. - I know heading tags give text much more weight in search engines, but does a <H1> tag get more value than a <H2> tag, and <H2> tag get more than a <H3> tag ect...?2. - Heading tags badly screw up my page by adding the spaces underthem so I use a css stylesheet to declare <H1> tags with a 0 bottom margin so it is more visually appealing. By doing this do I take the value away from them? If not could you declare a heading to be just like your regular text and put all words in heading tags or would that be easily caught?Thanks.all you have to do with that, is format your text however you want incss, and place it a folder...say your images folder. Then block the robotsfrom accessing that folder, so any text the spiders see on the page,thinks it's formatted all big and ugly. It won't knwo the difference,whereas visitors will see a pretty page formatted the way you want it tobe without hurting your SEO.But will I not get the heading bonuses if I don't use a robot.txt file to block the css file?I don't believe that search engines are spidering CSS files, but I could be wrong. However, I am positive that using CSS to modify header tags will not hinder your rankings on search engines.you would still use the heading tags, but to the user it would look as you wish. to the SE it would look like large plain black text.bilbo - this has been debated on most of the larger SEO boards, and the general concenus is any extra code or text the spider has to sift through, even css, is a hinderance to the collection of the page. The less it finds in resistence, the better your pages can be indexed.Isnt the process of modifying the H1 tags via a css file so that the spiders cannot see the modifications cloaking?Dont be tired to try this, bold capital letters will do the same jobs instead and i would confirm that it will have more weight then h1>h2... tags.All the things that told here are the old tricks for the google it dose not matter, the importance is the give Heading tag, the higher you give the better it is. H1 is considered the Best, and you can surely use CSS to control the height and size of the Heading tag, don't worry thats not bad for search engines.unflux - do you need to use the robots.txt to prevent the css from being spidered. I would have thought if it was an external stylesheet it would not be spidered anyway. Obviously if it is a big stylesheet in the header I can see that being a problem, but surely it would just ignore the external file as something that conains no "content" and ignore it. I really don't know what I'm talking about and I'm just speculating to be honest - it just seems alittle weird to me.Hey guys the thing that you are talking on is-will be very dangerous for the google rankings.Your answers to the thread starter will cause him/her to get banned - am i not right? Does google usually bann/lower the sites whom blow up the content by this way?how will changing margins or padding get you banned, I cannot possibly see how this could be considered spammingadvice I got from http://www.seo-guy.com -- pretty sure he's got the answers.you might want to check in to his forum http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/I have seen some new Google test that they did showing that H2 tags are better than H1 tags for the on page optimization.In response to Dolay I hope that I would not get banned. I only use it on some pages and it is only used for a maximum of 5 words(in the same tag). I was only asking if google does stop people from using <h1> tags throughout their whole site and have it changed to look like a normal font.I've got around 700-800 pages on my site that're cached by google.I've always used bold/strong at the top of the page as a "title." would the benefit be stronger if I used h1 instead? is the difference large enough that it'd justify changing all the pages?