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if i have a siteindex.php & i upload my sitemap to google -


do i really need to have my article titles as hyperlinks?????


i am using the clean theme..

this is my last question - honest!

Well, if you want as much visitors as possible, yes, it's better to link the story titles.
There are lot's of threads about SEO, but to keep it short: search engines look in GL from header, left column, center column, right column to footer, and think that the content in the hyperlinks, header tags (H1, H2 etc), list items and bold/italic tags are the most important content.

So it would even be better to put a link to the story titles and also give them a H* tag. You can adjust your CSS to adjust the appearance of the story titles.


Ask whatever you want, but please do some forum searching first...

i do search alot of the forum b4 i ask for help.

the reason i asked is because Dirk has been trying to help me fix the CSS problem with the "CLEAN" theme.

when i turn the articles into links & do the css fix (that non-ul thing),
it doesn't work.

i tried changing SPAN to A but still nothing...

i wish someone would find a fix or something for this & post it...

Assuming you are using a non modified version of the clean theme you can add this:
to your style sheet, and make sure you have: for your story titles in your various story template files.

I added this to my style.css



& I changed this is my featuredstorytext.thtml



so now the text does not look like a hyperlink anymore

BUT

the h1 or h2 tags don't work....

helpeth

In your featuredstorytext.thtml example you forgot to close your h1 tag. Does that fix it for you? If not what do you want the h1 tags to do?

thanks dr

i posted that last message b4 i read your post.

i tried your post & it almost works now!!!

it works when i hover over the article title but not before that..

i will play around with it & thanks alot!!!!!

getting closer

THANKS DRSHAKAGEE!!!!!

i added this to your post:


& now it works!!

thank you so very much.

hopefully your post will help others' later on..

muchos gracias

Glad it worked out. If you want to clean up the code a bit you can try changing your style sheet to have this instead:

It is a bit cleaner.

Change your story template files to have this:


Google really likes the h1 tags for story titles which I think you realized. I couldn't see that the old span tag did anything anymore so might as well take it off.

Using H1 tags always gives me a problem with Internet Explorer, I always get too much whitespace below the line with the H1 (or H2/H3) tags.

Any suggestions?

yes, believe I found a solution:

h1.classname {
margin-bottom: 0px;
}

I'd prefer display: inline;

bye, Dirk

Hey that's handy, thanks for the tip!

Yep, that's the most sophisticated option, but with Margin you can adjust the whitespace exactly the way you like it..

i have a problem now i changed this two options

can u help

What is the problem exactly?

look at my site

i have 2 titles and i do not know if the fist is now h1 title

please help somehow

Ah, now I see it, the first small title has the class articleTtile and the H1 tags, does that help you out?

Hint: use Firefox and the developer toolbar extension, that can show you all the information you need.

did i fix it

are my titles in h1 tags

is everything ok??



I hope i will get more traffic now

Looks OK now, but please do add a few px padding on the left of your story title, it is too close to the topic icon.