Question: My client's name company has a flipped letter on its name, so for example "PEOPLE" the P is flipped, I managed to flip the P with 2 span tags, but now I am thinking to do this for SEO reasons is not good, because of the SPANS. I have the feeling the search engines might not underestand a flipped P, and it is better just use a normal name.
What do you think?
thanks,

the flip html is
`<span class="flip"><span>P</span></span>`

Answer: 
SEO might be affected or it might NOT. It should be easy to test, once your site has been indexed by Google you can see if it reads the word "people" or not, and by looking at the search results you could see if Google shows "PEOPLE" or "PEO P LE" in its text snippets.

Anyway a good Search Engine Optimization of your site can be done even by keeping a flipped 'P', in other words: if you have only one place with the word 'PEOPLE' with a flipped 'P' even if it affects SEO it will be such a small hit that no one will ever notice.

In the worst scenario you can always replace the PEOPLE logo with an image with `alt="PEOPLE..."`
sure it can cause problems but if you want benefit of the SEO and of your design, keep using such a span but add a surrounding div with an itemprop property.

itemprop is a microdata tag, which comes with HTML5, it allows to add more definition to your page in purpose of search engine (semantic).

You can use standard schemas that common search engines understand here:
<http://www.schema.org/>

Hope it will help.