Instructions and help about Semantic Marcup SIG Formatted

in this tutorial we'll discuss why and when to use semantic HTML elements over divs alright so I just have a couple of examples for you but first of all why do we even want to use semantic tags instead of divs well first of all it's easier to read and scan the HTML if it has been properly structured with these semantic tags and I'll show you why in a second it's also better for SEO it makes it easier for those search engines like Google to come to your website and properly index all the contents that's on there which in turn will make it more likely that you rank higher in their search engine results right so you get more traffic and it's also better for screen readers or assistive technology and to properly you know categorize and index what's going on on your websites once it's also better for accessibility these are the three main reasons for why we want to use semantic tags so let me actually just give you an example of what a very typical HTML boilerplate would look like so this i