Edited by Randy, 19 May 2008 - 09:25 PM.
Unnecessary domain reference and unattributed quote removed.
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Seo W3c Ompliant?
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finnstones
, May 19 2008 05:57 PM
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Posted 19 May 2008 - 05:57 PM
i know i have to make my site wc3 compliant and poor html code is not helping. thats about all i know and i did not know how to answer the below question asked by my coder of whether i wanted to go with loose html. anyoe have advice. i dont want loose html if its bad for seo compared to strict or transitional.
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Posted 19 May 2008 - 07:41 PM
SEO wise, it should make no difference as long as any errors are not drastic enough to trip up a spider when it tries to crawl a page. Having said that, it is very desirable to have compliant code. Furthermore, use your chosen DTD and make your code comply with your declared standard. I mainly use the following DTD and make sure all my pages validate against it:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR...ml4/loose.dtd">
If you preview your designs in Firefox and have "HTML Tidy" installed as a plugin, it will validate and show code errors and warnings against whichever DTD that you use. Doing this will also give you a better chance of Cross Browser Stability.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR...ml4/loose.dtd">
If you preview your designs in Firefox and have "HTML Tidy" installed as a plugin, it will validate and show code errors and warnings against whichever DTD that you use. Doing this will also give you a better chance of Cross Browser Stability.
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Posted 19 May 2008 - 09:27 PM
As Piskie says, it's not going to make one iota of difference whether a site validates or not. This holds true 99.99999% of the time. You'd have to get way out of bounds for there to be any effect on the search engines. And by the time you got that far down the wrong path you'd probably have a lot more serious issues with visitors simply trying to surf your site.
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