Do ids in heading tags affect search engines?

Alright, we’ve got a question from Spain specifically Madrid, Dictina asks “Does using a class or an id in a header tag <h1 id=”whatever”>text</h1> instead of plain headers <h1>text</h1> interfere with the way search engines see and understand headings?”

I believe the answer is no, because you still have for example h1, you just have h1 id= whatever. So I don’t think that interferes in anyway. We are pretty good about saying here’s a hyperlink or an image tag and here are extra attributes, width or heights and we can prose those and sometimes we can use them. For example an image search you can now search for a specific image width and height of the images. But we are very good about noisy documents, documents width, extra ids all sorts of DIVs tables that aren’t closed those sorts of things. We do pretty well about disregarding those. So I would do clean great syntax make it easier for yourself when you develop or upgrade your site in future and Google will do a good job of ignoring the elements like on DIVs and stuff like that where you give it a class or an id name that’s not strictly necessary but often good form to do. So don’t worry about it, as far as search engines go.

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