Posted by Gregory Nickoloff on 09/21/06 00:19

What you might try is using an external style sheet to control the display
of your <h1>s in the header.

As far as I know, but I haven't really tested extensively, Google and the
like do not read external style sheets when doing their thing. (You'd have
to check out the server logs closely over a period of time to be sure)

If you set the header image as the background for a header <div>, and set
the display attributes of the <h1>s, etc to "display: hidden;" or perhaps,
"visibility: none;" You should be able to get by.

There's more to it than this, but for most situations, I believe it will
work without blowing your search indexing...I would like to hear more from
anyone with some experience in this method.

--
Gregory Nickoloff,
Lead Developer,
Kinetica Media
greg@kinetica-media.com

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