I am setting up our site with a body tag for all character attributes and a p tag for all paragraph attributes so as to style my text site wide.
QUESTION: Should my h1, h2, and h3 tags tags be set up with their own specific attributes, size, color alignment and such even if some of these are the same as I have in my body tag or p tag?
I am asking the above question as I believe I have seen what is described and it seems redundant.
Yes there may be times that an attribute of an h tag is the same of a body tag. Our main reason for using the h tags other than the simplicity of typography is to assist with better SEO.
No, it doesn’t matter how your header items are styled compared to your body tag. You use header tags (h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, etc) for emphasis and for structuring your content by significance for SEO purposes.
The visual appearance of them is solely related, plus matters only, to how you design your site and should not have an effect on your SEO because to the engines they see a H1 tag in the code and they know that is important versus them crawling through going “only accept the red ones.” It’s not that advanced.
If you did re-style them you would have redundant code which would bloat up your CSS file and things in SEO seem to be turning to page speed and optimization.
Thank you for the input. Was not really referencing style to SEO efficiency but rather wondering if a attribute in my h tag would have any adverse effect on things if it was the same as an attribute in my body or p tag.
BTW I gleaned a lot from a past screen cast I purchased from you, this is where I learned how to set up body and p tags in Freeway. Thanks for the resources you make available.
In trying to fix up a website that was previously created without regard to H1 and H2 tags, I’m trying to edit existing tags I want as H1 and H2 by going to them in the Text style window, and editing the style, making them an H1 or H2 type and name. The H1 changes seem to work OK, but the H2 changes are not showing up when I run Header Tag test tools on the webpages.
Questions. Can lists be tagged as say an H2 header style?
What is siginificance of seeing two text style highlighted when I select some text on a page? Do both styles have to be edited and say be set to H2 types for the H2 tags to work/showup?
Like I said, I’m just trying to correct and setup H1 and H2 tags when they weren’t setup in the first place and not change the look of the text.