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Web Guru
Originally Posted by
Marc J
Page source has: -
<h1>Hammy's Weddings - Part of Hammy's Entertainment - Professional wedding party DJ covering Eastbourne, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire - Web design by <a href="http://hodephdesign.com" style="color:#bcae51;">Hodeph Design</a></h1>
Through css styling this is replaced with your logo, but search engines don't necessarily see this, they read the text, and so they see a big link for the web designers in the prime location on the page.
Just had a closer look, the h1 tag is actually inside the footer div, the text in it is still visible as it's in the page footer across the bottom. So it's not quite as bad as I originally said, your logo isn't replacing the h1 tag via css, but it's still an h1 tag being "abused" (tiny text at the bottom of the page - hardly the correct use for h1, and there's still the issue of their link within it) and to make it worse they've put it at the top of the page code to give it more importance (even though it finally renders at the bottom due to the css styling).
Still very bad. Just not very very bad 
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Hi Marc, can you try your magic again as I told him about the things you wrote, Cheers.
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Just view the source page. The H1 tag was quite near the top
Still showing....
<body>
<img src="images/hammysweddingsdjsplash.jpg" style="position:absolute;left:50%;margin-left:-400px;top:260px;" alt="Hammy's Weddings - Professional Wedding DJ covering Eastbourne, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire" />
<div class="footer">
<h1>Hammy's Weddings - Part of Hammy's Entertainment - Professional wedding party DJ covering Eastbourne, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire</h1>
<p>Web design by <a href="http://hodephdesign.com" style="color:#bcae51;">Hodeph Design</a></p>
</div>
Last edited by Corabar Entertainment; 06-11-2011 at 11:20 AM.
Reason: merged posts
Steve
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Web Guru
Originally Posted by
hammy
Hi Marc, can you try your magic again as I told him about the things you wrote, Cheers.
Sorry, was away for the weekend....
As steve mentions, the source code now has (at the start of the page body): -
<body>
<img src="images/hammysweddingsdjsplash.jpg" style="position:absolute;left:50%;margin-left:-400px;top:260px;" alt="Hammy's Weddings - Professional Wedding DJ covering Eastbourne, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire" />
<div class="footer">
<h1>Hammy's Weddings - Part of Hammy's Entertainment - Professional wedding party DJ covering Eastbourne, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire</h1>
<p>Web design by <a href="http://hodephdesign.com" style="color:#bcae51;">Hodeph Design</a></p>
</div>
So, they've taken their link text out of the h1 tag, which is much better.
BUT, the footer is still the first thing in the page source, while for visitors it's the last thing on the page. And the h1 text is still used (imho) incorrectly for this. Strictly speaking what they're doing is presenting different content to search engines that visitors - search engines think it's at the top (first thing on the page), visitors see it at the bottom (last thing on the page). Google call this "cloaking" and in the overall scheme of things this example is a fairly minor offence, but it's still a bit naughty and might find you in trouble.
I wouldn't do it, that's for sure. They'll argue it's good for SEO. It may well be, but then it might be terminally bad for your SEO in the long run...
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Thanks Marc. Guess I need to kick butt as I told them to remove it.
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