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Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat
Is this just personal theory or something you have tested? It doesn't seem to make much sense to me, when proper clean design/code is considered a positive ranking factor, why would you bounce between the two, when one is basically obsolete and both perform the same function? Seems like iproper code to me. Besides, don't you think that it the engines are keen enough to determine coding quality of the page, that they can also tell that you're using both <b> and <strong> on the same page to accomplish the same thing? How would these two vary from say, using <span> tags and CSS to accomplish the bolding of certain areas of text?
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While treated the same, a good example would be to have a blog post title in strong, whether thru span or not, and have keyword with in the post body in bold.
Matt Cutts has made numerous videos in regards to this, and clarified that their is no harm in using either and or both. It's my experience and testing more so then theory. We rank one of our sites very well for Pornstar Names, but keep the pornstars action in bold, which also ranks well.
Example Post Title: <strong>Pornstars Name</strong>
Example Post Body: text text text <b>Pornstars Name Anal<b> text text text..
I understand your theory in regards coding, but again, their is no penalties for using both, but with various attempts at different tags, I stand behind my statement that it works, especially when the rest of the aspects of on-site are in place, the site is of quality, and deep linking mixed with internal linking is in order.
As you know, you can't take just 1 aspect of on-site SEO and expect to rank well, it takes a combination of various aspects all properly put together in combination with your off-site to rank well.