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I understand that if words are in bold, Google will see these as more important.
Can anyone tell me how Google recognises the words are in bold? Is it by interpreting the css?

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Member Avatar for pritaeas

AFAIK, it is scanning the <b> and <strong> tags.

Member Avatar for HelenLF

So would they know a word was in bold if I coded it like...

<p class="boldgreen">Some text in here</p>

... and with

.boldgreen{font-weight: bold; color: #090;}
Member Avatar for JamieLynnSEO

I believe so, yes.

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No, they wouldn't. You would need to use <strong>Some text in here</strong> You can then code that strong tag however you want
You can even do strong { font-weight: normal; } so that it will have SEO weight but it won't look bold to the website visitor.

commented: i stand corrected :) Thanks! +1
Member Avatar for HelenLF

Ah, that makes sense. Looks like that website I thought was finished isn't :)

Member Avatar for gokhanfil

<strong>TEXT</strong>

Member Avatar for Dani

Well you would use it within html code, not here ;)

Member Avatar for gogreen1

make bold
<strong>Some text in here</strong>
also you can use the tag <B>
better use this attribute in inline element in HTML and dont use in css :-)

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