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Google Says Some Semantic HTML Elements Do Make Sense for SEO

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Brian Harnish Jan 28, 2022

During the submitted questions portion of a hangout, one SEO professional asked John Mueller about semantic HTML elements.

Does marking up things like a content section or footer section with the

semantic HTML element help Google to better understand the context of the page?

John explained that the same principle to headings that they talked about earlier applies here also.

For some types of elements, using these does give a little bit more context regarding the content of the page.

However, things like the footer don’t really give us that much more information.

Some semantic HTML elements do make sense for SEO, however. It makes sense for usability and for compatibility across different browser types, all of that as well.

But, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s important for SEO.

This happens at approximately the 29:48 mark in the video.

John Mueller Hangout Transcript

John (Submitted Question) 29:48
Right. Cool. Let me run through some of the submitted questions and I’ll get back to those of you with your raised hands as well. Let’s see. The first one I have here is: do I need to mark up content on my page with HTML semantic elements, for example, the footer? Does it help somehow to understand the content for Google?

John (Answer) 30:07
I think we talked about this very briefly with headings. But it’s essentially similar here. For some types of elements, it does give us a little bit more context about the content of your page. But things like the footer don’t really give us that much more information. So some amount of semantic HTML definitely makes sense for SEO. It definitely makes sense for usability and for compatibility across different browser types, all of that as well. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s important for SEO.

Brian Harnish

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Brian started his journey in SEO in 1998, back in the days of AltaVista, Yahoo and Lycos. He taught himself web development and coding with Notepad and learned how to create graphics...

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