Would you use images inside H1 tags?

[DRTBA]

Hi everyone I know what you are thinking but I am being serious. Would you use images inside H1 tags?

Personally I don't see the benefit having an image included within the H1 tags but when looking at the Apple website today they actually did this.

On http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/#performance they have two H1 tags within the same page. One for an image on top and one for text midway on the page.

**The image tag is **

**The text tag is **

**Siri. The intelligent assistant that helps you get

things done. All you have to do is ask.**

Having two H1 tags in on the same page does not make sense at all and is against SEO best practices but including an image in the H1 tags ? Does anyone know any benefits of doing this?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

[EGOL]

Would you use images inside H1 tags?

Absolutely NO.

Does anyone know any benefits of doing this?

NO.  You never know... it could be a negative.

[DRTBA]

Thank you EGOL. That is what I thought but wanted to get a second opinion from the SEOMOZ community in case there was a benefit that I was not aware of.

Did you see how Apple was employing H1 for their image in the link above? What are your thoughts that Apple is employing this when we in the community know there is no benefits to doing this.

Very odd of such an organization that is on the edge of technology to employ this. Wouldn't you say?

Thanks again for all your help.

[donford]

Apple could being doing it, to make other webmasters try it.

Apple is Apple I mean they could probably pass on most of the little stuff that so many people obsess over. They could be running a nefarious plot to make other sites follow bad seo practices thus diluting those sites rankings. Who knows, but it would be hard to hurt their selves with little things.

[EGOL]

If Apple was using that for a clever optimization trick their alt would not be "Picking up where amazing left off."

I would not model my SEO after Apple.