Firstly, you can look into one of the many, many image replacement techniques that are about to allow a graphical title with a textual alternative for text-only user agents such as search engine spiders. I don't know which is currently considered the best so I can't advise you on that, but I'm sure someone else can and will.
Secondly, many people are of the opinion that the H1 should be different on each page - that the H1 should reflect the main heading of the page, not the site heading/company name. Makes semantic sense to me, anyway. I believe that H1 elements are weighted more highly in the search engines than h2 or h2 elements, for what's it's worth, but from comments made on this list previously it's somewhat of a matter of conjecture as to whether search engines pay any attention to them at all. From comments made on Matt Cutts' blog I think that at least Google places some weight on them, but probably not anywhere near as much as on other elements such as the page title. That's really OT for this list, however... a forum like SEOChat.com would probably be more helpful to you on matters concerning SEO. Cheers, K. -- Kay Smoljak http://kay.zombiecoder.com/ On 1/19/06, Brewer, Dorian E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using an image replace in my CSS for H1 tags in a new template I am > developing on my companies' intranet site. Our intranet consists of a portal > homepage and hundreds of sub sites. The sub sites header would be the > graphical H1 tag. Every sub site would have a different header and unique > graphical H1. > > I am wondering if by using that same template on our public site if it will > hurt us in search engine rankings? The catch is the graphical H1 tag would > be the same on every page since the header is the same throughout the site. > Are the header tags weighed equally whether they are H1, H2, H3, etc.? ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
