Archive for September 2nd, 2007
The importance of the <*h1*> tags
We have all seen this tag when coding a website or trying to make a title stand out from other text on the page, but many have asked how important is the tag? I will make it very simple, and the answer is yes it is very important. I know that you can just bold the word so it will stand out, but it is not really about that. We use <h1> tags in order to specify to the search engine spiders that whatever is within those tags is extra important and they should make sure and index it. These tags are great for putting keywords in because of how the spiders treat the tag. The cool thing is that you can make your <h1> tags look fancy with a little CSS on your site. This will break your tags away from the ordinary and make them stand out a little more for your visitors. So, instead of just making the font larger and bolding a title on your page, just use the <h1> tags to make is stand out and try to get it as close to the top of the page as possible. This is so the spiders will see it first and sometimes a spider might not even crawl all the code on a site, but the first half maybe. This is why you want to get those tags near the top of the pages.
