Style= vs <b>

[John84]

Does...

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Text</span>

...have the same effect as...

<b>Text</b>

...or...

<strong>Text</strong>

...in terms of SEO?

 

[dmi]

I guess not. The crawlers recognize <b>'s and <strong>'s and "pay more attention" to those. The text in the <span> will be treated as -regular- text.

 

[Keral_Patel]

As said above.

Also to add the validation of the document. Some tags don't validate if not used properly. But as google.com itself doesn't validates. I have stopped worrying about my pages being validated :D