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Jim the Geordie wrote:
If most of m[y] pages are tables/photo galleries how do I get over the problem of a SEO scan telling me I should have a <h1> tag
My site is www.jimscott.co.uk
Use h1 elements for content that effectively constitutes the top-level
heading for the page. You now have such content as images, which causes
some complications; it would be simpler if the content were text styled
with CSS.
For example, your main page has an image (within a table cell) for the purpose. It correctly contains an alt attribute, though the value of the attribute might not be optimal. You could simply slap <h1> and </h1>
tags around the <img> element, but it is better to also consider whether
the alt attribute value would constitute a good heading.
For example, your main page has
<img alt="Index header" height="40" src="index_images/Jim_Scott_Photo_Website.png" width="444">
You could make it
<h1><img alt="JimrCOs Photo Website" height="40" src="index_images/Jim_Scott_Photo_Website.png" width="444"></h1>
so that the alt attribute matches the text in the image.
It would be better to have just
<h1>JimrCOs Photo Website</h1>
there, with some CSS code that causes the desired styling of the text,
but this would require some work (e.g. making the font used a
downloadable font and setting size, colors, shadows etc.).
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