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{"id":854,"date":"2011-04-29T08:34:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T12:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/?p=854"},"modified":"2011-04-29T08:34:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T12:34:23","slug":"do-ids-in-heading-tags-affect-search-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/do-ids-in-heading-tags-affect-search-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Do ids in heading tags affect search engines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/3SnXYnzS3tw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/3SnXYnzS3tw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alright, we\u2019ve got a question from Spain specifically Madrid, Dictina asks \u201cDoes using a class or an id in a header tag &lt;h1 id=\u201dwhatever\u201d&gt;text&lt;\/h1&gt; instead of plain headers &lt;h1&gt;text&lt;\/h1&gt; interfere with the way search engines see and understand headings?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I believe the answer is no, because you still have for example h1, you just have h1 id= whatever. So I don\u2019t think that interferes in anyway. We are pretty good about saying here\u2019s 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\u2019t 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\u2019s not strictly necessary but often good form to do. So don\u2019t worry about it, as far as search engines go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, we\u2019ve got a question from Spain specifically Madrid, Dictina asks \u201cDoes using a class or an id in a header tag &lt;h1 id=\u201dwhatever\u201d&gt;text&lt;\/h1&gt; instead of plain headers &lt;h1&gt;text&lt;\/h1&gt; interfere with the way search engines see and understand headings?\u201d I believe the answer is no, because you still have for example h1, you just have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattcutts-video-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}