View Full Version : Is this a real Trick or is it Spam? H1 tag linking

ABS659
06-09-2004, 11:20 AM
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<h1><a href="http://www.computernetworkingsolutions.net/ "
title="Systems Integration and Outsourcing">
Systems Integration and Outsourcing</h1></a>

This is a hyperlink and it is display as h1 tag

Question:

Does anyone know what this does?
Is it good or bad?

I thought a read that linking in a title tag is bad. Is this consider bad as well?
seo guy
06-09-2004, 11:56 AM
It is not bad, it will have no effect on the link itself however being in an H1 it may be given a sligh weight increase, it is not spam.

The linking with the title="" isnt bad either it just doesnt produce any benefit as the SE ignores it
laura
06-09-2004, 12:02 PM
See, I thought SE's used the title attribute in links.
ABS659
06-09-2004, 01:25 PM
[QUOTE=seo guy]It is not bad, it will have no effect on the link itself however being in an H1 it may be given a slight weight increase, it is not spam.
[/QUOTE]

It will have no effect on the link itself:
So it really doesn't matter to the SE if the link is in a h1 tag, bold, italic...Is this correct?

What will have a slight weight increase the page I am linking to or the page I have the link text on?
complainer
06-10-2004, 05:02 AM
[QUOTE=ABS659]
<h1><a href="http://www.computernetworkingsolutions.net/ "
title="Systems Integration and Outsourcing">
Systems Integration and Outsourcing</h1></a>[/QUOTE]
This is a little off-topic, but as written the above is not proper html, because the h1 and a tags are not properly nested. I think it should be:

<h1><a...></a></h1>

It is possible that:
<a..><h1></<h1></a>

would also be OK, but I'm not sure. I do think that proper html is important for your site, but I can't prove it helps the search engines. I doubt it has any direct effect in the current scenario.
scott659
06-10-2004, 08:12 AM
they both work. I found this code from a top listed site for link spam on google.
but I agree with you the proper html is better