CSS & H1 - Is this allowed?

[incka]

Is it allowed to make H1's into normal text using CSS?

[r2d2]

No ones gonna stop you - but if someone takes a disliking to it and reports you to the SEs it could get you banned...

People seem to have had little luck though getting sites banned for this, but you takes ur chances I guess...

[Chris]

It isn't going to help.

It is better to have 3 keywords in h1 text than a whole paragraph. It is all about density and those 3 keywords will have 100% density but the paragraph will not.

[MarkB]

I think formatting of text is a webmaster's perogative - and poor design to use H1 on an entire paragraph (especially for browsers that don't support CSS!).

[incka]

It didn't work anyway... It kept making two blank lines after and before my keyword...

[r2d2]

need to use display:inline.... but dont do it anyway....

[chromate]

use... display: inline;

However, as Chris says, it's pointless to do this if you're applying it to normal text. You will only detract from other headings that are really important and that you want the search engines to take notice of.

I don't think doing this would get you banned though? From looking at all the spam sites everywhere, it seems like it would take a lot to actually get a page banned. Invisible text is a different matter. resizing h1 text is pretty legit I would think.

[RockNRollPig]

Does h1 text have more weight than say h6 text? If that's the case...then using CSS for the h1 would be smart, wouldn't it?

[r2d2]

Yep, use h1 for your page headings - like the headings on my site's articles pages, they are h1. Use CSS to style it how you like.

You'd have to have a pretty crazy page to actually need h6 tags I think...