Semantic HTML tells developers (or search engines) ... Examples include: a forum post, a magazine or newspaper article, or a blog entry, a product card, a user-submitted comment, ...

Google's John Mueller advises using semantic HTML. Though not a ranking factor, it helps search engines understand content and boosts accessibility.

Sometimes, you can enter into a technology too early. The groundwork for semantics was laid down in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with Tim Berners-Lee's stellar Semantic Web article, debuting in ...