Html Validation

VladTepes · Post by **VladTepes** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:16 pm

Mostly, errors in coding and link structure of sites will prevent SE bots to index the entire site and stop on errors. Webmasters should always look up at this, including those deadlinks and not SE friendly urls...

AS-9 · Post by **AS-9** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:51 am

Some errors may be acceptable but only to a certain point. Let's get down to details and discuss this issue more than the normal way. Show us more details.

JHobson · Post by **JHobson** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:39 pm

Personally, I think that it is very important to achieve validation or certainly to get the errors under 8. It shows that you respect a set of standards and have a willingness to "do things right". And my experience has been that our sites do VERY well in organic rankings. I believe that meeting W3C standards helps in strengthening our SEO efforts.

There are other benefits to achieving W3C validation but I can't share here how we use it and "school" my lesser competitors. Bottom line, YES, work for validation.

kettlewell · Post by **kettlewell** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:38 am

HTML Validation keeps your site easy to crawl by all the search engines... not only the top ones, but the lessor ones too that might not have the error handling that the top ones do... I've never heard of validation being used by the big search engines as one of the hundreds of factors taken into account for SE rankings, but it wouldn't surprise me that a site that validates gets a nudge higher than one that doesn't validate... I don't have any facts on this, but just a hunch..

So should you validate your site? I do.

Matt

visual · Post by **visual** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:49 am

HTML Validation errors checking is one factor of seo work.

LucianoFigallo · Post by **LucianoFigallo** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:59 pm

I always try to validate all the pages of any site, although I'm still finding some problems to validate pages with flash code into them...use W3.org

peterko · Post by **peterko** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:17 am

Agree, lots of sites with no validation stay much higher than validated sites. I personally paid more attention to validation before by checking my site any time I made content changes. Then I noticed no matter whether I do vilidation or not, my ranking is not changing. Probably html validation is something that better to have if you have enough time to do it.

Have a great day

extreme-seo · Post by **extreme-seo** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:50 am

Use W3C validation, XHTML,CSS validation is usefull for Search engine Spider Crawling rate, keep clean , no broken links, no errors, and nor warnings. and you will receive automated sitelinks from Google.

Help: validator.w3.org

smithb · Post by **smithb** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 7:17 am

To make your site error-free & validate it are the essential work of SEO work.

Your site must be HTML validate.

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