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Timothy
Timothy

Reputation: 1158

Will using <span> instead of <h> tags for heading affect the way Google caches them?

Will using <span class="heading"> instead of <h> tags affect Google search engine optimization?

I am building a website and I styled the headings and subheadings with <span>. Then I realized will Google find them without the <h1> tag?

Will span work or should i use ?

<span class="main-heading">Text here</span>.

Or

<h1>Heading</h1>.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4993

Answers (1)

Husen
Husen

Reputation: 935

From the aspect of design & development there is no matter what tag you have used.

But, from the aspect of SEO there is really a big difference between <span> and <h> tags.

Generally, <h> tags are used for SEO purpose. Search engines consider <h> tags more important than <span>. The Search engine indexed your web page text as a title if it enclosed between <h> tag.

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Also, if you want to use <h> tags without major changes than you can do following:

HTML :

<h1>
    <span class="main-heading"></span>
</h1>
<h2>
    <span class="sub-heading"></span>
</h2>

CSS :

h1, .main-heading { font-size:30px; }
h2, .sub-heading { font-size:26px; }

Upvotes: 4

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