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Old 11-10-2010, 06:00 PM  
Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life
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Originally Posted by 2bet View Post
Both <b> and <strong> are recommended. Remember, Google is not he only search engine. Over use of <strong> can look spammy, so mixing it up puts emphasis on your keywords while staying under the red flag radar
Is this just personal theory or something you have tested? It doesn't seem to make much sense to me, when proper clean design/code is considered a positive ranking factor, why would you bounce between the two, when one is basically obsolete and both perform the same function? Seems like iproper code to me. Besides, don't you think that it the engines are keen enough to determine coding quality of the page, that they can also tell that you're using both <b> and <strong> on the same page to accomplish the same thing? How would these two vary from say, using <span> tags and CSS to accomplish the bolding of certain areas of text?
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