Span with style or <b> and <i>?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by anotherchancetosee, May 16, 2005.

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    Is there any conclusions on whether SEs prefer to see <b>Keyword</b> or <span style="font-weight: bold">Keyword</span>. Ditto for italics.

    Blogger's rich text editor puts in the spans, but lately I've been swapping them out for <b>s and <i>s where I want to use them.
     
    anotherchancetosee, May 16, 2005 IP
  2. ServerUnion

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    I have a feeling that they read more of the HTML tags rather than CSS
     
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  3. anotherchancetosee

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    I'd suspect that too. <b> and <i> haven't been deprecated anyway have they?
     
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    No, in the sense that they are still part of the HTML standard. However, hardcoding visual formatting into HTML is depricated and useing css to format/display your data is currently recommended (and a lot easier to change if you want to modify later). However if you use css directly in the the tag instead of css classes, you lose that benefit. But hey, it's your site, do what you want :) (I still use <b> and <i> tags btw)
     
    exam, May 16, 2005 IP