external css crawling

[nohaber]

Something has been bugging me recently.

Does google crawl external .css files?? I haven't noticed such a thing in my web logs.

I am asking because google stores relative font size info for its hit lists and I am wondering how in the world can they guess the font sizes without crawling the .css files??

I am wondering if there would be any advantage at the moment to use plain old <font> tags.

Regards,
nohaber

[Chris]

Font size is gained from H tags. Google doesn't really care about the style, just the structure (heading, paragraph, etc).

[rocky1]

Concurr with Chris on this one, the engines look at the font tags <h1><h2> etc, also the <b>or<strong> tags in html. Any of these will score as Title text if found in the first 200 words.

Case in point I had the title on my site in Tristan font which is normally all caps and bold, 24 font. In the line below that I had text stating the site was best viewed in 1024 x 768 resolution, in a Times New Roman, bold, 8 font. The Times New Roman was picked up as Title Text because of the <b> tag and the page title was overlooked.

Revised the site with external CSS defining at least a portion of the page format, including font style, listed the Tristan as <h1> to cure those ills, and moved the other statement below mid-page so it doesn't show as title text.