: Using RDFa with an image inside of an H1 tag I come from a development background but just recently starting learning SEO along with RDFa. I am working on our companies new website where the

@Jessie594

I agree with what unor said. The only thing I want to add is that you could use @property instead of @rel to align with RDFa Lite. So your snippet would like:

<div class="twelve columns" typeof="gr:BusinessEntity">
<h1 property="gr:name" content="Thoughtwire Marketing">
<img property="foaf:depiction" src='http://www.thoughtwiremarketing.com/images/TW-marketing-logo.png' class='twmarketing' alt="Thoughtwire Marketing"/>
</h1>
</div>

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@Shanna517

(I adjusted my answer that I gave to your (now closed) question on SO.)

When a user-agent (including search engines) parses your RDFa, it doesn’t matter which element the RDFa is used on (except for special parsing rules). The user-agents learns something like the following:


There is a business entity (http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#BusinessEntity) which has the name (http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#name) "Thoughtwire Marketing" (= literal value of the content attribute).


As you can see, it does not relate this statement to div or h1.

After this RDF is extracted, you could essentially imagine that the RDFa is "removed" from your page. So user-agents will see/interpret your plain markup, e.g.:

<div>
<h1>
<img src='http://www.thoughtwiremarketing.com/images/TW-marketing-logo.png' alt="Thoughtwire Marketing"/>
</h1>
</div>


RDFa and HTML (semantics) are two different concepts.

I’m not sure that I understand your actual problem, but now you might have two questions:


Is my RDFa fine that way? As you already linked to and tested your page with a RDFa parser/validator, probably yes, if the extracted RDF is what you want to say about your content.
Is my HTML fine that way? From the HTML specification perspective, yes. And all consuming user-agents (including search engines) should be fine with it, too. Having images (especially logos) as content for headings is very common.

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