Is placing an H1 tag below a slideshow a bad practice?

[Armen-SEO]

Hello All,

It is to my understanding that it is a best practice to have a single H1 headline that corresponds to your title tag at the top of your page, above your content for the best On-Site Optimization.

We are developing a site that uses a big slideshow with text on each slide, and are concerned that placing the H1 Headline below this will be a bad practice. Would a better option be to have the slide show text on the image and place no alt tags on the slides, so that the crawlers accessing the page overlook this and see the H1 below the slider first? We need to maintain the slider for design purposes, but would like the site to optimized.

A similar example to what the slider will look like is as follows: http://www.boviskyle.com/

However, we look to have optimized, "10x" content below the slider with a solid H1 headline as well.

Thank You!

[DSM_UK]

Hi,

I certainly wouldn't put the text into an image if you can help it, the more good on page content the better!

The H1 tag describes what the pages is about, if the slider isn't 100% relevant, then being above the H1 is fine.
If it is relevant, then you can always have the H1 above in the code, and then style it in CSS to be below the slider.

Kind Regards

Jimmy