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How do search engines interpret <hgroup>...</hgroup> tags?
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Hi there.
I'm building an HTML 5 site and through research of new HTML 5 elements I've seen little conclusive information about the interpretation of the new
<hgroup>tag, in terms of SEO application and interpretation.
In particular does Google interpret the nested heading tags as individual elements or does it combine them into one entity?
For example, say I have:
<hgroup> # Article Heading ## Article Sub-heading </hgroup>
How is this interpreted by Google and what would be some good SEO best practices regarding the
<hgroup>tag in HTML5: Is it interpretted as a single
tag ("
Article Heading: Article Sub-heading
") or two separate heading tags (one
and one
)?
Also, how much does the ordering of the tags matter (say for example I wanted something like the following for visual purposes?
<hgroup> ## Article Sub-heading # Article Heading </hgroup>
One last thing: is it safe to assume that it is indeed OK to have multiple
tags on a single page (as referenced by Matt Cutts a while back in a Webmaster Video)?
Thanks!
</hgroup>
</hgroup>
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This seems like some good info on hgroup
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