Does Bold & Italics help on Google?

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    Does Bold & Italicizing keywords help on Google?


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  2. Hersheys

    Hersheys Peon

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    Bold and Italizing the keywords within the content emphasized the importance of keywords.
     
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  3. Neticule

    Neticule Well-Known Member

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    Indeed, just dont overuse it, for example, if you bold your whole site, then it wont do any better than just bolding the keywords :p
     
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  4. poshswinger

    poshswinger Active Member

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    #4
    Yes, bolding the keyword of a webpage has the meaning to emphasize it, and it is very important in SEO sense.
     
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  5. SEOpaw

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    #5
    bold text are important but don't bold them all, h1 for titles, bold for sub title, italics for slogans
     
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    schgrv Active Member

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    #6
    That's right. Always try to make your site for user friendly as well as search engine friendly. Here is no doubt that Bold & italic in content has some +ve impact for SERP's but don't overuse. Because due to more use of these content looks very bad and users don't like it. So try to use in few palces with mind.........................
     
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    #7
    Use sparingly and only to highlight keywords / theme words for page
     
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    #8
    As everyone is saying, YES. :)
     
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    #9
    Yes they do if used within limits !!
     
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    #10
    Absolutely right, its like sitemaps you give priority to the most important page only :)
     
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    mabel01 Banned

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    #11
    yes it does. just limit the use of it. only italized or bold those priority keywords.
     
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    Freewebspace Notable Member

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    #12
    Any proof for this ????

    I think it will not help...
     
    Freewebspace, May 28, 2008 IP
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    #13
    i will say yes, but the impact is not much worthy
     
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    #14
    Surely using the Bold, strong or Italic in your content will have good impact on your overall on-page seo. But don't overdo them
     
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    kodut Well-Known Member

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    #15
    google gives importance to h1,h2 tags so use them efficietly
     
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    #16
    It does, but to the extent that it really doesn't count. The impact of Bold and Italics are usually easily overshadowed by other factors.
     
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    #17
    I had no idea that bolding a keyword is beneficial for seo, this is good to know.
     
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    #18
    This is news to me also. Tanks
     
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    #19
    Don't exaggerate with their use. You won't see any major improvement anyway.
    Google gives more and more importance to offpage optimization nowadays.
    Everybody can bold a keyword, not everyone could get quality links.
     
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    #20
    how do you even prove something like this?
     
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