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title: "Semantic HTML"
description: "Using HTML elements for their meaning (article, nav, aside) rather than just visual layout."
topic: "Structured Data & Schema"
canonical: "https://geordy.ai/glossary/structured-data/semantic-html"
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# Semantic HTML

Using HTML elements for their meaning (article, nav, aside) rather than just visual layout.

AI engines weight semantic markup heavily. A page wrapped in `<article>` with proper `<header>`, `<main>`, and `<footer>` elements is dramatically easier to parse than div-soup.
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Source: https://geordy.ai/glossary/structured-data/semantic-html
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