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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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Part 7 of 10 of the SEOExciter Series, which you can watch all of them right now at  -> SEO and Get Ranked High in the Search Engines.

So far, we have focused a lot on the things that you can directly do to your website to get it indexed in Google (or the other search engines for that matter!).  Now we need to focus on the other side of SEO, which we call Off-Page SEO.

Remember the old proverb:

“If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it really make a sound?”

This is similar to what we are talking about now.  If we built the greatest and most SEO optimized website on the internet and Google does not find it, will we get ranked?

The answer is no.

So we have two tasks as website developers:

1)  We first need to tell Google (and the other search engines) that we exist!

2)  We need to convince these search engines that we are both important and relevant.  (we are going to talk about this more in the next three parts!)

So how do we tell Google that we exist?  (The proper term for this is “getting indexed” in the search engine.)

Now I know many of you consider the idea of “submitting to search engines”, but personally, I think that is a waste of money.  These “search engine submissions” are more suggestions rather than indexes.  Yeah, I am sure they tell the search engines you exist, but it really gives you no credibility or popularity…and getting indexed really does not require this.

All you need to do is get a website that is already being indexed by a search engine to link back to your website.  We are going to talk more about getting backlinks (these are links from external websites pointing back to your website) in Part 9 of the SEO Exciter series, but just a quick preview…

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  • Submit to Directories (this is different than Search Engines!)
  • Ping your Website or Page (Try Google’s Ping Service)
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  • Create Forum Posts or Blog Comments

The point here is to get Google to find you naturally.  It will give you credibility, authority and relevance.

And just like we started this conversion…

“Just because Google indexes you, doesn’t mean you will rank for anything!”

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