Does... <span style="font-weight: bold;">Text</span> ...have the same effect as... <b>Text</b> ...or... <strong>Text</strong> ...in terms of SEO?
Yes and no. Yes the above tags will all place emphasis on a word, but no because your first example will impact the code to content ratio and increase your page size. I would go for option 2, short, simple and does the task intended. Always keep your code minimal yet functional.
Hello sweetfunny, I heard now a days google doesn't like this tag <b> and giving more advantage of <strong> tag. I know that they all are so small things in SEO work but we should alway choose the best option that's why I'm asking you that.
Can you show me where you heard this, and who is claiming it? I've found no difference between the two, and if Google does favor one over the other it "may" mean the difference between being position #3,562 and #3,563 but i can hardly see it pushing you from #2 to #1 The <b> is the lightest code and adds the least to your filesizes.
I'm not saying that 3rd one is the best as I said, I read in one of the article (don't remember the exact path) and thats way I have some doubt on my mind and want to clear anyway thanks sweetfunny
There is an article on Ramblings about SEO about whether the bold element or the strong element is the most effective. This article mentions that an engineer from Google pointed out that both carry the same weight. Many other SEO specialists found the same: you can read about it in for example the article on SEOmoz about the Google search engine ranking factors and an interesting thread on WebmasterWorld.
Thanks, that confirms what i've found also with testing that there's no difference. Because <b> is lighter on code, i prefer to use it to improve code to content ratio.