P Tag In H1 For Seo

I was wondering if using

tags nested in a

tag would be bad for SEO purposes.

some title

some subtitle

Solution 1:

Search engines may ignore p markup inside h1. Or they might dislike it, doing something nasty. In any case, there is nothing to be gained by using such markup. Instead, you can use

<h1>
some title<br><small>some subtitle</small></h1>

You can then tune the relative sizes by setting font-size on h1 small. You can also set padding-top on it, if you wish to have more spacing between the parts.

Search engines can be expected to treat the h1 element as just containing “some title some subtitle”. If this makes a long heading, they may discard part of it (near the end) or maybe just reduce the relative importance of the contents from the weight that a short heading would have.

In any case, you should expects words in headings have relative weight in SEO, relative to other contents on the page, not to the outside world (other web pages).

Solution 2:

I don't know about SEO, but your intended usage is NOT valid HTML and I would advise against using tags in such a manner.

If you need to work with dynamic page titles, why not use a dynamic language such as PHP/Python/Rails instead of static HTML?

Solution 3:

This is what you want my friend:

<h1>
    My Question & Answer Page<br><spanstyle="font-size: 22px">I hope these answers help you!</span></h1>

My <h1> tag (all my 'h' tags actually) font size is set by CSS.

I'm sorry, I forget where I got that from, but it was a credible SEO company and I have used this for awhile now with no discernible adverse effects.

Solution 4:

This is not valid HTML (5).

The specification says that the h1, ... h6 elements expect Phrasing content (see here). But this doesn't include the p tag (see here).

this would make my life a bit easier, dealing with dynamic pagetitles..

I don't really understand you. For subtitles, I would recommend using h2 or h3 - if necessary.

Solution 5:

If you want to use titles and subtitles use h1 and h2 etc. With that way the crawlers understands the hierarchy and the importance of your headlines.