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Re: page should contain no more than two h1 elements

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From: Dean Hamack
Date: Jun 16, 2009 11:40AM

On 6/16/09 3:44 AM, "M Akram Danish" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> i checked w3.org site and they use image in <h1>
> <h1 id="logo"><img alt="The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)" height="48"
> width="315" src="/Icons/w3c_main" /></h1>
>  it seems it is just to fulfill the requirement that there should not be more
> than 2 <h1>. and as far as I know we cannot use <h2> before having <h1>.

Rather than rewrite why I believe this practice is a bad idea, I will refer
you to a blog post I wrote which covers it. It's under the "SEO
Optimization" heading:

http://www.bushidodesigns.net/blog/semantic-accessible-seo-friendly-wordpres
s-theme/