The first results of the experiment are in, and they’d seem to indicate that Google places no importance at all on heading elements relative to any other text in a page.

In order, the current results (with duplicate hits included) are:

1. embedded h2
2. full content of a normal paragraph
3. embedded h1
4. normal text embedded in a paragraph
5. split between h1 and h2

Note, however, that the missed h1 test–probably the most relevant of any of them–is not yet included. I don’t hold high hopes that it will fare any better, though.

I’ll leave this to age for a few more days and see if things change at all, then try a new iteration. Suggestions are welcome, as always.

Via Eric Meyer I see that XFN 1.1 has been released. I’ve updated my stylesheet accordingly; it’s quite a bit bigger because I chose to duplicate the 1.0 selectors rather than switch to CSS3 *= syntax. As noted in the original post, it’s largely theoretical: most people can’t use the CSS3 rules, and both CSS2 and CSS3 are made redundant by the last rule that overrides everything above.

Anyway, that’s not what this is about. What this is about is a bit of geek humour using the rel attribute.

• Better be careful, or…
• …welcome to the Appalachians!
• Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania
• Don’t tell the missus
• Danger Will Robinson!
• Nabokov material

All of the above are legal… that is, with respect to the specification! That’s not to say there aren’t some illegal combinations that you wouldn’t necessarily want to come across either.

• Stuart Smalley
• I’m my own grandpa
• Eve
• Also Eve
• a master debater, if you know what I mean
• Shirley Maclaine

Comments are open… you know what to do!