Google's John Mueller confirmed again that bolding words and "important points on a paragraph" does help with SEO and rankings. But it is all relative, if you bold everything on the page, then it doesn't help, John explained.
This came up at the 40:23 mark into the video where at the end, John said "So if you want to kind of like simplify it to to one word answer. Does bolding important points on a paragraph help the SEO? Yes it does."
I like how John summed up his answer at the end, kinda like an audio based bold tag where he said bolding words or paragraphs does help with SEO in short.
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John also mentioned this Matt Cutts video from 2013 on bold and strong tag:
Here is the transcript from John's answer in the new video above:
Someone was arguing that bolding important parts in a paragraph can boost your SEO does it?
Yeah. I think this is something that comes up every now and then I double checked before the session actually and Matt Cutts did a video I think in like 2012 or something around that. About bolding and strong in on pages. So usually we do try to understand what the content is about on a web page and we look at different things to try to figure out what is actually being emphasized here. And that includes things like headings on a page but it also includes things like what what is actually bolded or emphasized within the text on the page.
So to some extent that does have a little bit of extra value there in that it's a clear sign that...
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