Figure or Div, which should I use?

Question

I'm designing a news site. I use thumbnails of news on the homepage. Should I use the div or figure tag for them?

Sample figure,

<a href="/news_url">
<figure>
  <img src="news.jpg" alt="news">
  <figcaption>News headline</figcaption>
</figure></a>

Sample div,

<a href="/news_url">
<div>
  <img src="news.jpg" alt="news">
</div>
  <span>News headline</span>
</a>

Does it make any difference in terms of SEO?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 08 '21 at 15:52

In fact, if you use either of them, you will not encounter any SEO problems, but it would be better to use the <figcaption> HTML5 tag for better SEO. Because Google bots recognize these tags and understand why you are typing that text. If you use span, Google bots will only see it as a text.

So my answer is:

<a href="/news_url">
<figure>
  <img src="news.jpg" alt="news">
  <figcaption>News headline</figcaption>
</figure></a>

Figure or Div, which should I use?

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