<strong> or <span style bold>

hi guys and girls

i'm using NVU to build my webpages

my problem is that when i wanna put a text in bold, and do it via the wysiwyg of nvu, it puts in the code

<span style="bold">text</span>

HTML:

instead of putting

<b>text</b> or <strong>text</strong>

HTML:

so, as i have now realised this, and have a bunch of pages with span style bold, i'd like to know your opinion : do you think i should change in my code those span styles by <b> or <strong> or does google and other engines see the span style bold as bold text?

thanks

 

In my version of NVU (version 1 for OS X) I can change this preference. Open the Preferences, go to the 'General' tab, and uncheck the box that says 'Use CSS styles instead of HTML elements and attributes'.

 

thanks tflight, i just changed that

however, i still would like to know, do you think i should go back on my existing pages and replace the span style bold by b or strong in order to improve seo, or does google and else recognize the span style bold as bold text?

 

I know for a fact that google treats <strong>, <bold> and <em> the same way. However I don't know how it would treat the <span="bold> type tag. So to be safe, I would use one of the first 3 I mentioned above and there has to be a way to change the preferences in your editor as someone above mentioned. If there isn't your editor sucks and you need to use something else.

 

My suggestion is to use <b> or <strong> tags instead of method 2. These are the bold tags that gives the keywords a little boost