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Question about Bold/Strong and $$ amounts

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blogging4jobs last edited by

I've just downloaded the Moz toolbar for chrome and noticed that some website I'm visting have a dollar figure range next to the Bold/Strong section. What exactly is this?

If you go to http://www.tincup.com and use to the toolbar you'll see what I mean.

Thanks, JMM
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blogging4jobs @RyanKent last edited by

Thanks I feel very silly. It just seemed weird as I'm looking at other pages and not seeing similar thigns.
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RyanKent last edited by

Hi Jessica.

It means those terms are in bold on the page.

Visit the page and do a search (CTRL+F) and type in $300. You will be taken to the sentence where the page's author typed $300 and $10,000 in bold.
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