the <HR> tag and SEO

[Phil in Abbeville]

I heard something recently that I want to ask about.
Someone told me that using the <HR> tag should be avoided in your HTML. They said Google will not look past it.
Is this true? If it is I'm in trouble because I keep my pages pretty simple and I find many uses for the <HR> tag.

[Wes]

I've never heard of anything like that. However, I would try fetching the page as Googlebot and seeing if it displays anything below the HR tag.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...omainname.com/

Requires a Google Webmaster Account.

When logged in go to site > health > fetch as Google.

[rankwatch]

I have not heard that <HR> affects the SEO ranking.

[Phil in Abbeville]

Ok Thanks,
It sounded funny to me, but I'm still learning all this SEO stuff and there's always something that comes up that doesn't make sense to me.

Thanks again.

[searchbliss]

Originally Posted by Phil in Abbeville

I heard something recently that I want to ask about.
Someone told me that using the <HR> tag should be avoided in your HTML. They said Google will not look past it.
Is this true? If it is I'm in trouble because I keep my pages pretty simple and I find many uses for the <HR> tag.

Somebody told me once that to eat shrimp properly, you eat them with the shell, legs and tail on. It was so ridiculous, I had to smile, as to not embarrass him.

If Google painstakingly ads to Googlebot the ability to read shockwave content for indexing flash websites properly, they certainly wouldn't stop at a simple html tag. Tell the "someone" to go eat shrimp...properly.

[narayanseoexpert]

I haven't heard that <HR> affects the SEO ranking. even we should use H1 and H2 tags with each pages... atleast 2 times..to get a better results in serp

[Jason_Martin]

As per my knowledge it do not effect SEO at all.

[denysaputra]

Originally Posted by Phil in Abbeville

I heard something recently that I want to ask about.
Someone told me that using the <HR> tag should be avoided in your HTML. They said Google will not look past it.
Is this true? If it is I'm in trouble because I keep my pages pretty simple and I find many uses for the <HR> tag.

Where you heard from anyway?

[Phil in Abbeville]

Originally Posted by denysaputra

Where you heard from anyway?

Well I have this little sideline job working for a family that sells greenhouses on the internet. They have several websites. One of the sons does the internet marketing for them and honestly, he's done a pretty good job. Before Penguin, 3 of our sites were on page 1 of Google for "greenhouses".
Anyway, just recently he told me to go and remove all the <hr> codes from the product descriptions.
While I'm with them, I'm trying to lean as much SEO as possible to apply to my sites and the <hr> thing didn't sound right, so I thought to ask here.

[seoposter]

Originally Posted by Phil in Abbeville

Well I have this little sideline job working for a family that sells greenhouses on the internet. They have several websites. One of the sons does the internet marketing for them and honestly, he's done a pretty good job. Before Penguin, 3 of our sites were on page 1 of Google for "greenhouses".
Anyway, just recently he told me to go and remove all the <hr> codes from the product descriptions.
While I'm with them, I'm trying to lean as much SEO as possible to apply to my sites and the <hr> thing didn't sound right, so I thought to ask here.

Well, I think that son realized he can take advantage of borders and css to simulate the same effect the <hr> tag can offer. Else, I am not sure why such an almost depreciated tag would hurt any SEO effort.

[laney69er]

I wouldn't worry about this, cant see any reason why this would have the slightest effect

[the_lawyer_seo_guy]

Originally Posted by Phil in Abbeville

I heard something recently that I want to ask about.
Someone told me that using the <HR> tag should be avoided in your HTML. They said Google will not look past it.
Is this true? If it is I'm in trouble because I keep my pages pretty simple and I find many uses for the <HR> tag.

That's a load of junk. Don't listen to people with opinions, listen to people with data.

[netcommlabs]

I never heard that <HR> tag will affect search engine ranking.

[annieluise]

I read your all details. Even I am completely agree with you that I have not any single idea that <HR> tag will not affect any SEO ranking. It is included in HTML tag called as a Horizontal line.

[sigmond]

yeh right, <HR> cannot affects the SEO ranking.

[ourscompany]

I guess you may be looking for H1 tags rather than HR.. HR not exist. H1 do.

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Originally Posted by ourscompany

.. HR not exist. H1 do.

Really?

The hr element represents a paragraph-level thematic break....

...
Changes in HTML5

Although previous versions of HTML defined the hr element only in presentational terms, the element has now been given the specific semantic purpose of representing a “paragraph-level thematic break”.

Details

Some examples of thematic breaks that can be marked up using the hr element include a scene change in a story, or a transition to another topic within a section of a reference book.

hr – thematic break - HTML5 Specifications Working Draft

[antonyz]

agreed, never ever seen it affecting any SEO on my projects..

[zengatv]

hi guys
it is like a funny thing That Google not accept the <HR> tag.