Website Coding

[dmiller90]

Recently I have had a string of "Websites" that are creating problems with Individuals Search Engine Optimization efforts.

The reason for this problem is the "Code" that these websites are built with are creating problems for the Search Engines to properly read and index.

Search engines rely on "clean" code easy W3C tags and error free mark-up to parse.

This might help explain in simple detail:

Most pages on the World Wide Web are written in computer languages (such as HTML) that allow Web authors to structure text, add multimedia content, and specify what appearance, or style, the result should have.

As for every language, these have their own grammar, vocabulary and syntax, and every document written with these computer languages are supposed to follow these rules.

The process of verifying whether a document actually follows the rules for the language(s) it uses is called validation, and the tool used for that is a validator. A document that passes this process with success is called valid.

Validity is one of the quality criteria for a Web page, but there are many others. In other words, a valid Web page is not necessarily a good web page, but an invalid Web page with errors has little chance of being a good web page.

Check your own site and make sure your site is atleast using W3C compliant code. Atleast XHTML 1.0 Transitional.

Be concerned if you see your site is built with HTML 1.0 unless it was built in 1995.

 

[Expat]

My site is WD40 compliant, are you saying that I screwed up?

 

[dgoldenz]

I have a Norvax template website and got this message:

Errors found while checking this document as HTML 4.01 Transitional!

Result: 112 Errors, 8 warning(s)

Damn you Norvax....

 

[STIBROKER]

Things that make you go hummmmm......

 

[somarco]

WD40 compliant means you can participate in kinky parties.

 

[Charpress]

The result of not being WD40 compliant:

 

[Aaron_4SIGHT]

I have a Norvax template website and got this message:

Errors found while checking this document as HTML 4.01 Transitional!

Result: 112 Errors, 8 warning(s)

Damn you Norvax....

The W3C validator is a useful tool, but it isn't the whole story. For every rule, there's a reason to break it. Take a look at what happens when you run Google through the validator.

Errors found while checking this document as HTML 4.01 Transitional!

Result: 52 Errors, 12 warning(s)

Google builds their pages to not be W3C compliant because they can shave a few kilobytes off the file size of each page. Multiply this by all of the pages they serve a day and it ends up being a huge decrease in bandwidth. There are many other reasons why a page might not pass the validator but still be okay.

Of course, if you're breaking the rules, you'd better know what you're doing!

 

[tryan326]

What Is W3C Compliance?

The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium and since 1994 the W3C has provided the guidelines by which websites and web pages should be structured and created. The rules they outline are based on the best practices and websites don't have to comply to be viewed correctly.

For those of you with dogs. W3C can be compared to the AKC (American Kennel Club) Competition. As they set standards for how pure breed dogs should look, act and etc. during competition. With that being said a mixed breed dog is just as good and sometimes can be healthier than a pure breed dog but does not meet the AKC standards.

That's the basic concept of the W3C a validated site is a pure breed dog and a non validated site is a mixed breed so to speak.

Per Matt Cutts (Top Google Engineer that specializes in SEO). As long as you have relevant content your site can rank well. W3C is not as important as some people think. If you search majority of the sites in the top 10 listings on any given subject you'll find most will not validate. It has no effect on SEO.

Here's an interesting blog post on this subject.
Pro-SEO: Does W3C Markup Validation Help With SEO?

 

[dmiller90]

What Is W3C Compliance?

The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium and since 1994 the W3C has provided the guidelines by which websites and web pages should be structured and created. The rules they outline are based on the best practices and websites don't have to comply to be viewed correctly.

For those of you with dogs. W3C can be compared to the AKC (American Kennel Club) Competition. As they set standards for how pure breed dogs should look, act and etc. during competition. With that being said a mixed breed dog is just as good and sometimes can be healthier than a pure breed dog but does not meet the AKC standards.

That's the basic concept of the W3C a validated site is a pure breed dog and a non validated site is a mixed breed so to speak.

Per Matt Cutts (Top Google Engineer that specializes in SEO). As long as you have relevant content your site can rank well. W3C is not as important as some people think. If you search majority of the sites in the top 10 listings on any given subject you'll find most will not validate. It has no effect on SEO.

Here's an interesting blog post on this subject.
Pro-SEO: Does W3C Markup Validation Help With SEO?

Matt Cutts joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000. Which is currently the head of Google's Webspam team.

Second the Article that you referenced was wrote on October 27th 2006

The bottom line, When I have a "New House" built and I pay Top Dollar for a "New Modern House" I would expect the Carpenter to be using and following the Proper Industry Standard Codes. I realize an Outhouse works put I prefer a Indoor Bathroom.

The huge point you dont get is the Loading time of the Site, which matters to Google for Ranking and customers, Viewing the site is only one portion.

Jam this on some 3rd Tier Server (FATCOW) and you have nothing but bottleknecks. You get what you pay for. Agents Deserve Better

I can also cut down a tree with a Tree Saw. But I prefer a ChainSaw.

Bottom line if your building websites for Agents, they should get nothing but the Best and should expect nothing less.

But I guess if you have something to defend, and writing code in HTML 1.0, I guess ignoring or discounting this issue is normal.

 

[tryan326]

Ease up partner. I'm not defending anything. Load time has nothing to do with W3C. Google itself is not even W3C Compliant along with many other name brand sites that have top positioning. And having a site that is W3C complaint doesn't mean that you have a site that loads faster.

If you do a search on Matt Cutts you'll find video blogs posted by him in 2009 talking about this very issue.

I say tomato...you say tomatoe. We have the right to varying opinions. This is a discussion board.

Even your mydragonfgures site isn't W3C Complaint
Errors found while checking this document as XHTML 1.0 Strict!

Result:219 Errors, 17 warning(s) Address: