[HTML] Header 1 (<h1>)...display:none

[Conrad11]

From an SEO point-of-view, you should have the <h1> tag in there for the title at the very top of the body.

Basically, I can't remember, is it "ok" to have the styling as "Display:none" for the <h1> tag if you don't want to show it to the user....it doesn't do anything bad for SEO does it?

I only ask as I used to do that? But then I changed to "text-index:-2000px" styling for some reason, but I was wondering peoples opinions...

...or am I looking at the situation too deeply...and it doesn't really matter?

Thanks.

 

[Conrad11]

From an SEO point of view it doesn't matter, since crawlers ignore CSS.

Well google tells me different (from searching - not actual google)...

...according to what is posted on peoples blogs anyways...

...I was just looking for the general consensus.

 

[Conrad11]

Well I am using it to simply utilise the <h1> tags but without the image showing and insuring that its the first thing in the page...

...from a pure SEO point-of-view.

I mean I could have the <h1> tag in one of the containing DIVS, but then it wouldn't be the first thing in the body, and I was always taught that, that was the way to do it.

See my implementation in my very draft site here: http://www.benbarron.com/new/ (the actual XHTML isn't even final for whats currently on the page - I know there are things that should be changed)