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CSS help HTML Coding forum discussing anything related to HTML coding, such as using proper HTML code, optimizing code to be spidered easily, creating layers and tables. Make pages compatible for different web browsers like IE, Firefox, and Opera.

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I am doing SEO on my client's site (his site is photography related) and of course one of our recommendations is to have strong tag/bolding . . .

However, he insists of not wanting the bold text to show because he said his clients will not like all those bold texts. So what he did was to use CSS to make sure the bold text color will be the same as the regular content ... now my question is:

is that considered cheating? Can he be penalized for that?

Please advise. Thanks!
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No!

Markup determines what the tag is about,
Style determines how it looks.

As an SEO you should know that.

The only time it can really be an issue is if you sue an inline CSS style to make the text the same colour as the background.
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Nope!
He didn't cheat! He just find other ways to solve your problem.
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Markup determines what the tag is about,
Style determines how it looks.


What does this mean?
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Markup is the html of your page so <body> tells you what follows is the body of the page (what will be shown) and continues until </body>, similarily <p> signifies paragraph. Another way to put it would be that markup describes how the html page is structured and to be laid out.

The style describes how that structure will look, will it have a black background and white text, will certain words be bold, that kind of thing.
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