HTML 5 is the next version of the “Internet Language” – HTML, which includes some semantic improvements, which, without any doubt will affect the way of Search Engine Optimisation. These are the new tags <header>, <nav>, <article>, <section>, <aside> and <footer>, which will affect the on-page SEO.
All of this is already in use by some websites, which use precursory version of HTML 5. It is officially stated by Google that they do not use this information at that very moment, but their own algorithms. Of course one day, all this information will be taken into consideration by the Search engines.
The new tags:
HTML5 <header>
It will contain the upper part of the page with a h1 tag in it, which has to contain a proper title for that page. May be you already guessed that outbound links from this tag will be very important. (more…)
