Question : Using CSS to style H1 tags listed within a paragraph

Right now I have no

,

tags in the page because they are too big. I have 2 paragrahs on my home page that contain 3 keywords within the paragrah. If I use an

tag for the most import and

for the next  within these paragraphs, then style it with CSS to be a normal font size,is this considered spam? Would it be better if I just forget about having any

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tags or hide them with CSS? By the way, I have to put the CSS in the head. I won't go into it, but take my word for it - in this senario, I can not uplaod a separate .css file.

Answer : Using CSS to style H1 tags listed within a paragraph

My 2 cents.. :  There's no point trying to 'cheat' google.

Google tries (with limited success, but eh!) to compute how a human being would consider a given web page. For that, it does look at things like titles and section titles (H1-H6), to see what appears to be important information.  --  The important part, however, is "how a human being would consider".

Think about it : if you think those words are important for google, don't you think it'd be important also for your website's VISITORS to see it is? After all, google hits will NEVER convert into sales, HUMAN hits will.  Not to mention that google is constantly changing its ways, so that what sounds like great trick today might just fell short of handicap tomorrow.

On this particular problem, I very (very, very) much doubt that google would penalize you for having re-sized your H1 and H2 text. HOWEVER, I strongly suggest you reconsider the structure and try to apply the H1 to H6 tags to their rightfull use, that is titles and section-titles.  If those keywords are important enough, then there's good chance you can use them as title for a subsection or a paragraph or whatnot.  Then they'll impress both google AND the potential client.