Timeline for What is less bad for SEO: to have a <section> with no heading, or to hide the heading with CSS? [duplicate]
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| Jan 25, 2019 at 12:08 | comment | added | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | Google has long said they don't care about valid HTML. They index the web as they find it, not as it is supposed to be according to the spec. They don't give any bonuses for validating. | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 10:17 | comment | added | Dimitris Leon | The W3C guide is a guide for you to write valid html. Valid Html has impact on how your website will be crawled and indexed. So Stephen, W3C guide is not for SEO but it is directly related to it. Finally, i hope you comprehend how my question is completely different to the one you pointed me to, thus should not have been marked as duplicate. Cheers | |
| Jan 24, 2019 at 15:47 | comment | added | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | The W3C guide is not for SEO. | |
| Jan 24, 2019 at 15:36 | comment | added | Dimitris Leon | i am aware of the fact that hiding a heading is bad technique. The other question is talking about headings in general and from an importance point of view. It has nothing to do with the spec's description about the <section> tag, which is what i am asking. Spec sais: Each <section> should be identified, typically by including a heading (<h1>-<h6> element) as a child of the <section> element. What i am simply asking is that in front of the dilemma: section tag with no heading child and css-hidden heading which would be less seo harmful? Anyway thanks for the point out though | |
| Jan 24, 2019 at 15:06 | comment | added | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | The other question asks specifically about hiding heading using CSS. The answer says not to do that. It also addresses the question of whether or not the headers are needed (they are not). | |
| Jan 24, 2019 at 14:25 | comment | added | Dimitris Leon | @Stephen Ostermiller i don't think there is any duplication here. The issue i have is that my markup consists of several <section>s and i want i.e. in the 3rd section not to have a heading title at all. However, 'typically' a section tag should have a heading child. So, the question is what is less harmfull: to have a section with no title at all or to keep the title but hide it somehow? | |
| Jan 24, 2019 at 10:35 | history | closed | Stephen Ostermiller♦ seo Users with the seo badge or a synonym can single-handedly close seo questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | Duplicate of How important are headings in SEO | |
| Jan 24, 2019 at 10:03 | answer | added | Jason Is My Name | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 24, 2019 at 9:53 | history | edited | Stephen Ostermiller♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2019 at 9:18 | history | edited | Dimitris Leon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 24, 2019 at 9:12 | history | asked | Dimitris Leon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |