More on why i'm asking about Google rankings
(and if anyone can find that bookmark on how the search rankings work, I'll love them forever!)
I know that H1 is a text formatting thing. My understanding is that its still part of search engine optimisation - at least the company we're dealing with for such things is still working through the issue, and is still talking about it, so i presume there is something to it being part of the ranking process, although i think it has to do moreso, with searchable keywords etc.
I want to know if, just IF, there was an image that was referenced as being 'H1' (ie - important regarding keyword searches), would it advesely affect the ranking if you could run an application simultaneously, to also have the image reference as text.
The image comes into it simply because the entire look and feel of the website is in a particular brand styling, which, is not a web font, and thus the plan was to have all the headings in images, however, the consumer marketing guys brought up the point that what about SEO.
SO, i'm in an issues meeting today, and this issue is still on the list, nothing's been resolved, we're still waiting, we're less than 2 months out from go live and it seemed to me, that if the company doing SEO hadn't gotten back to us, and the development team was similarly unable to provide answers, if we're unable to test it effectively using a specialised test scenario....
WHY NOT ASK?
I got laughed at, and mocked. But you know, surely there's a way to formulate the question in such a way that it doesn't give away the stuff they can't share?
I don't know, its not really my problem, I just figured that with all the NOT ANSWERS we have, that you know, asking might be one approach...
Then again, I'm not a technical geek, i'm a projects and organisation geek and I look at problems in that manner, and not from a technical perspective - should make learning to be a business analyst interesting, but fun! :P If I ever get to learn that is *mutter mutter*
So yes, I know its a text formatting tag, I know that in any sane circumstance it shouldn't coincide, but you know what? Tourism is good at finding themselves in positions like this... the new websites are BOTH built on beta technology, where we're still having deployment problems from beta 2 upgrade to the RTM version... never mind the production version.
Perhaps finding an answer or a solution to this will go a reasonable way in putting me in a position to be doing a part of the job that i find more interesting than what I'm doing now.
I know that H1 is a text formatting thing. My understanding is that its still part of search engine optimisation - at least the company we're dealing with for such things is still working through the issue, and is still talking about it, so i presume there is something to it being part of the ranking process, although i think it has to do moreso, with searchable keywords etc.
I want to know if, just IF, there was an image that was referenced as being 'H1' (ie - important regarding keyword searches), would it advesely affect the ranking if you could run an application simultaneously, to also have the image reference as text.
The image comes into it simply because the entire look and feel of the website is in a particular brand styling, which, is not a web font, and thus the plan was to have all the headings in images, however, the consumer marketing guys brought up the point that what about SEO.
SO, i'm in an issues meeting today, and this issue is still on the list, nothing's been resolved, we're still waiting, we're less than 2 months out from go live and it seemed to me, that if the company doing SEO hadn't gotten back to us, and the development team was similarly unable to provide answers, if we're unable to test it effectively using a specialised test scenario....
WHY NOT ASK?
I got laughed at, and mocked. But you know, surely there's a way to formulate the question in such a way that it doesn't give away the stuff they can't share?
I don't know, its not really my problem, I just figured that with all the NOT ANSWERS we have, that you know, asking might be one approach...
Then again, I'm not a technical geek, i'm a projects and organisation geek and I look at problems in that manner, and not from a technical perspective - should make learning to be a business analyst interesting, but fun! :P If I ever get to learn that is *mutter mutter*
So yes, I know its a text formatting tag, I know that in any sane circumstance it shouldn't coincide, but you know what? Tourism is good at finding themselves in positions like this... the new websites are BOTH built on beta technology, where we're still having deployment problems from beta 2 upgrade to the RTM version... never mind the production version.
Perhaps finding an answer or a solution to this will go a reasonable way in putting me in a position to be doing a part of the job that i find more interesting than what I'm doing now.