Logo / H1 page structure
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Not sure why I did it this way, but I need to know if this is bad for SEO - I suspect it is. Consider this is how the Logo and company name is shown on each page of our site.
Where the #title tag has a background image showing our company logo, rather than the actual company words. Then the CSS is also displacing the company text in favor of the logo, but also helps with accessbility so the first thing they see on the site is the company name.
My question is - I should probably not use an H1 tag for this, right?
And then in order to change this around, I should use H1's for the important title of the page. I understand there is some question about whether the page <title>and H1 should be the same, but we don't need to go there right now. ;-)</p></title>
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Hi Upcounsel
Since that isn´t part of site´s hierarchy, enfasizing the importance of that element over the URL´s content, i would avoid the use of that H1 tag; it will never help and is gonna limit your content from having a good defined hierarchy
Well....as Fredrik says....you already knew this one!
Best!
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Hi
I fully agree with you, there is no need to put a "fake" H1 instead of the logo. Just add the logo, and if you want you can add the company name in both the filename and the alt text of that image.
H1 is for marking the most important heading of the page. Think of it as you would structure the headings in a school paper. H1 would then represent a very important section. But after all the headings are for the user to understand, not the bots indexing the site.
So all in all, I think you already knew the answer to this one
Fredrik
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