Does putting keywords in bold print help?

[webmagnets]

Would it help if I put my most important keywords on my page in bold?

[SEbasic]

Yes. Basically, but the difference will be marginal. It is probabally a better use of your time to go out and get more links pointing to your site.

[melfan]

Would it help if I put my most important keywords on my page in bold?

would help on what? SEO? I dont think so.

On your visitor? Yes it may.

[Will.Spencer]

I would be extremely interested in seeing any proof to support either answer to this query.

[mopacfan]

I have my own theory, but it's just that, a theory. I'm still looking for the proof either way as well.

[T0PS3O]

See proof: http://www.edsolutions.ca/seo-google-test-results-09-05-2004.html

[SEbasic]

Nice link TOPS...

Cheers for that.

[melfan]

thanks for the link. I learn something today

[T0PS3O]

Remember though, on-page is only a fraction of what counts. It'll only help you in cases where everything else is the exact same as your competitor. Get 10 unique and good backlinks for each minute you read that experiment and you'll be better off than doing a make over and implementing all of it.

Remember google-bombing, miserable failure and bbq grill. All top spots with either no content or not related to the keyword anchor text at all.

[vlead]

One can use the <b> as well as the <strong> tag to make the text bold. I was wondering which is better from SEO point of view.

[Percept]

One can use the <b> as well as the <strong> tag to make the text bold. I was wondering which is better from SEO point of view.

Strong is better from a standard XHTML view so I would recommend using that.