Posted by Adrienne on 11/22/49 11:20

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> writing
in news:9iuchref2s9u.1bih38mrovjg3.dlg@40tude.net:

> mark | r wrote:
>
>>>>> <h1><img src="image.jpg" alt="Io Silver Jewellery"></h1>
>>>>>
>>>>> And when anyone turns off images, the alt text does get displayed as
>>>>> if it were directly in the <h1>.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/
>>>
>>> Must say I never saw that technique before, actually...
>>>
>>>> shows loads of example of these techniques, the only one i know to be
>>>> completeley accessible is the one using spans!
>>>
>>> In which situation wouldn't the regular alt text be displayed when the
>>> image is absent?
>>
>> Because search engines dont categorise Alt text in a h1 as H1 text
>
> Which shows I'm better at CSS than at SEO :S
>
> Oh well, it's one more reason to not apply <h1> to what I usually code
> as <div id="logo">. I use <h1> for the page title, which never is an
> image in my book.
>

Google _might_ look at it if it were a link. You could try:
<a href="#heading"><img src="logo.png" alt="" title="Heading Text"
id="heading"></a>

Then style it to not appear as a link.

But, as Els says, headings should be text, not images. There are probably
other SEO issues with H1 images, like should a SE shows H1s in the SERPS,
how would it display an image?
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