Google's Matt Cutts: Strong vs. Bold Are Treated The Same For Ranking

Oct 22, 2013 - 8:47 am 12 by

Google: Strong vs. BoldGoogle's Matt Cutts posted a video explaining that the bold and strong HTML tags are treated the same for ranking and SEO purposes.

He is surprised people still use bold over strong but from an SEO and ranking perspective, it is the same.

Here is the video:

So don't obsess about this...

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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