Are there HTML text editing tags "preferred" by google search robots?

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I decided to rewrite some 300 files that I will use in a project, because they were originally written directly on google Docs, and when saved as HTML and try to include with requireor include, CSS’s interfere with each other (and tbm because it generates a lot of useless CSS, HTML is all messed up with a lot of classes...).

Anyway, as there are many and still tend to increase, I’m trying to use the "best" tags to rewrite these files, and searching found several pages with the same statement:

The recommended SEO tag is the Strong in English Strong means strong ie, will make the word strong and Bold means bold, then if you use b in your posts it will just be a word in bold and not a word that should be differentiated by the robots of google searches.

This didn’t make much sense to me. What a difference can it make in the order of the results of the researches for example?

I was already using <strong>, and I researched why I started thinking about doing <b>, thus saving typing time, code size etc. (including this related question that explains well the semantic difference, but does not address the relationship of this with ).

So what I’d like to know is if there really is a difference in the use of SEO HTML text-editing tags (from emphasis, italics, or any other) and what’s the practical result of this.

A page will be better ranked in the results by no longer using <b> and start using <strong> for example?

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    Visually speaking <b> is equal to <strong> which is equal to <span style="font-weight: bold">. They used to say that <strong> was the best option for SEO, but it seems that nowadays it does not make a difference, being the content itself that makes the difference. See that comment. Also take a look at Google SEO guide here.

  • So I also thought that only the content made a difference, but after seeing it so many times I was in doubt... I saw that comment refers to a video of Matt Cuts, but my English :/ He says it makes no difference? I’m reading the guide here, thanks, I hadn’t gone into SEO yet, and I think it’s really cool. If you want to post as an answer it’s worth at least +1. Hug.

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Google says nothing about this aspect, but it will contribute nothing to SEO.
The most important things to consider is page structure (use tags correctly, H1 for headers, sections, etc...), meta tags and Urls.

It’s the same as wearing classes/ids with descriptive names on HTML/CSS like if I owned a pet shop and I’m using classes and ids as in the example below, this will only make the code more beautiful and easier and clear for you to read. But it will not help in SEO:

#menu.gato.cao { ... }
#menu.avestruz.animais.etc { ... }

Google prefers sites that load fast, have good structure and have descriptive Urls. These are the aspects we should focus on.

You can read more about this topic on: You need an SEO?

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    So it makes no difference anyway... thanks.+ 1 Just to complement, do you have any idea what the chance of one of them being depreciated according to the other in the future? For example, you would bet that the <b>or the <strong> will "survive"? (I won’t even open a question about it because the answer would be based on opinions etc and the question would quickly be closed hehe)... You don’t even have to explain, just to get a real idea... Thanks.

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    It’s true, I think it will be more based on opinions. My opinion on this is that none of them will disappear, just like the <i> has also been removed and has not been removed.

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