Hey everyone, I have a question related to SEO. I am just learning the basics and have started entering h1 and h2 tags. I have an area on my page where I would like to place an h1 so it is recognozed as an important header, but I only want the font size to be 12. Does the font size matter to the search engines or will they consider the h1 as being important no matter what size it is? This is such an awesome forum!

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To my knowledge the tag is referenced by search engine bots and it is not important the true size of the text. If this were true would something stupidly large like 48pt actually be more important? Hopefully somebody else here has more to add but that is the way I understand it.

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I agree with nixwebo. The size is irrelevant from what I've seen.

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I also agree with nixwebo and Lisa. I don't think the search engines care about the text size. The search engine is after the structure/organization of the page components, not what it looks like.

This is a very minor point, however, but for the human visitor, I think a heading that stands out may help people stay on your page longer... which the engines take note of. So, in a way, there is a very tenuous link between h1 tag size and search engines result. Hope it makes sense.

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Thanks for the input about the size of an h1 heading. I posted the same question recently in another forum and I was told to try it and see if it would make any difference with SEO. You guys are winning my confidence

Jordy

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Jordy,

I am glad you found the responses helpful.

I just wanted to comment on the suggestion you received from another forum. While I am sure the person was trying to help, but SEO is a very dynamic process that depends on many variables. Based on my limited experience (and maybe others who know more could comment on this) I would think it would be rather impossible to split-test pages for SEO purposes.

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