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Changing the Font & Style of Your H1 Tags

QUESTION: (Rhonda) I am having problems changing the font size of my H1text. Is this very important? If so, how do I go about changing it?

Changing the text and/or style of an H1 tag is simple in CSS.  It does not affect anything other than how the visitor sees it though (i.e., if you use a large font, it means nothing more than a smaller font, in SEO terms or how Google sees it).

You can change the H1 tag locally or in the CSS definition file.

If you want to change all of the H1 tag settings in your entire website, you would do this in the CSS file:

h1 {
font-size: 24px;
}

You would use the h1 tag as you normally would:
<h1>This is my H1 tag</h1>

You can define a class in the CSS file which allows you to define your new style whenever you wish anywhere on the site:

.h1style {
font-size: 24px;
}

You would add this class to your h1 tag, when you wish it:

<h1 class=”h1style”>This is my H1 Tag</h1>

* Remember to add the “.” when defining it in the CSS to classify it as a class.

Finally, you can do it locally using a style attribute (without the CSS file):

<h1 style=”font-size:24px;”>This is my H1 Tag</h1>

All of the above do the exact same thing.  Their use is based on how often you use the style and how you want it defined (whether globally or locally).

Also, remember you can add other styles to the same definition (like color):

<h1 style=”font-size:24px; color:red;”>This is my H1 Tag that is Red and 24px high</h1>

I find that being able to change the styles of my text for header and other standard tags to be quite invaluable!  Knowing a little bit of CSS can go a long way.  Give this a try!

The easiest thing to try first is the local definition using the style attribute. If this is working for you, consider creating or editing your own CSS file!

Good luck!  cheers…matt


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Does NoFollow Still Work?

September 16th, 2008 . by Matthew Bredel . Tweet This!
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I suppose the more important question is:  Does it really matter?  Since the inception of the rel=”nofollow” attribute of the <A> tag for hyperlinking, SEO has become easier because it became more controllable.  As a web developer, we focused a lot of time to create Page Rank and because of that, we were very protective [...]

I suppose the more important question is:  Does it really matter?  Since the inception of the rel=”nofollow” attribute of the <A> tag for hyperlinking, SEO has become easier because it became more controllable.  As a web developer, we focused a lot of time to create Page Rank and because of that, we were very protective of who we shared this page rank with.

The nofollow attribute allowed us to create hyperlinks that would not share your “page rank juice” with links that you specified.  Further, we were able to use nofollow attributes to create a dynamic SEO structure within our own website (a strategy that I discuss extensively with my clients of NetWebVideo).

These strategies of dynamic linking and selective outbound linking has resulted in great success with all of my SEO campaigns.

Now in 2008, the importance of Page Rank seems to be dwindling and the effectiveness of the nofollow is in question.  I think it can be proven that search engine spiders DO follow and sometimes index pages from these nofollow links.  What we don’t know is it impact on the pages’ popularity, from an SEO standpoint.

Do these nofollow outbound links “bleed Page Rank?”

Maybe, maybe not.  But I don’t think that Page Rank, as a number, means much any more.  It doesn’t mean that Google has some hidden page rank we don’t see that DOES MATTER!

As people are freaking out about these nofollows and whether or not to use them, my advice is simple:

Use them and stick with your current SEO strategy.  The cost of adding this rel=”nofollow” attribute is minimal at most and if these do have the SLIGHTEST bit of influence in commanding top organic listing positions, then it is well worth it.

To ignore it (or removing it from a current website) serves no purpose.

Remember that SEO is still (and will always be) a guessing game.  Adding the rel=”nofollow” is one of the few proactive things you can do to your on-page optimizing that really cannot harm you (like changing a Title, an H1 tag or the content of a page).

cheers…matt

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2 Responses to “Does NoFollow Still Work?”

  1. [...] Does NoFollow Still Work? [...]

    Posted by: Do Follow, Don't Follow, What The Heck | Creating an Awesome Home Business
    September 30th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

  2. i have still doubt about nofollow,i use to comment on many blogs when i like the post,and many of them are using nofollow for wordpress comments…
    but when i explore my site in yahoo site explorer it shows all those inbound links,it may not give you page rank benefits,but still you have traffic benefits..

    and now a days trust rank is more important than page rank.TrustRank is the degree to which Google trusts that your website will be valuable to visitors if presented as a search result…

    Posted by: talwinder
    April 23rd, 2011 at 12:50 pm

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