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CommentThursday, September 23, 2004

Does W3C Validation Help In Search Rankings?

14 Comments

By sees (WPN reader) - Sat, 10/24/2009 - 03:31

Good info

Thank u for your info, it is so helpful

By Gorge (WPN reader) - Sun, 09/20/2009 - 03:24

Great

It is even more valuable to the next person who may work on the code. There was no other way for me to use page breaks without putting everything inside of Paragraph tags.
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By Best SEO Services (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/30/2009 - 18:40

In our experience the parsing is the big issue. It doesn't seem that code errors in and of themselves have a negative impact, but if they result in the "message being lost" than yes that is bad! Definitely better safe than sorry - wC3 validation is not that hard.

By Lito | TheFilipinoEntrepreneur.Com (WPN reader) - Tue, 02/17/2009 - 22:55

If you have time to do it...

I think making your site W3C compliant is mandatory if you are building a new site. But if you already have a website with lots of static pages, the time and resources you will spend converting it, is it worth it?

By Sit Stay Fetch Review (WPN reader) - Mon, 01/26/2009 - 23:37

I found that validating html

I found that validating html doesn't do me any good (or harm) so I just don't do it.

By Mike (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/09/2009 - 05:33

Well I would also like to

Well I would also like to know this information. Does it help or not?

Mike - regcure license and the jump manual guru

By Anthony (WPN reader) - Fri, 01/09/2009 - 18:43

google code

I have just run W3C Validation on my site and most of the errors have come from scriptI have cut and pasted from google (eg custom search box) and bookmarking functions such as AddThis.
Given that this is very widespread can it really matter?

By Search Engine List (WPN reader) - Mon, 10/13/2008 - 05:35

Validation

I just went through the onerous process of getting one of my pages to validate... but then every time I come to a <BR> tag, it all breaks down.

There was no other way for me to use page breaks without putting everything inside of Paragraph tags... that was my only real problem until I tried to validate a page with some Ajax or JavaScript.

I'm new to this, so am unsure... is it best to put this:  or similar around script?

By Luke Deer (WPN reader) - Sat, 02/28/2009 - 01:47

It's been when dealing with

It's been when dealing with JS to have as little on page scripts and instead include .js files. This not only helps with W3C validation but does have other SEO benefits. By removing on page scripts (most of which are in the head section, you remove text from your page thus bringing your actual text towards the top of your page. Search engines view text at the top of your page as more important. Why waste that on code?

P.s. - For your break tag issue, use a / before your closing tag to make it a self-closing tag.

By Sukhdeep (WPN reader) - Mon, 07/28/2008 - 07:20

XHTML validation

is the XHTML validation important for seo, but if you check the homepage of google and yahoo they are also not validated.

so how it can be necessary can anyone tell...

By Justin Case (WPN reader) - Mon, 06/18/2007 - 23:17

How does this page rank?

W3C Validation of this page
Result: Failed validation, 97 errors

By Virtuvės baldai (WPN reader) - Mon, 09/17/2007 - 03:28

w3c

je very nice 97 errors! And how Author can write such articles for peoples but don't take care of his own page validation

By Ashwin (WPN reader) - Mon, 09/24/2007 - 06:01

I took some time for

I took some time for validating my pages, since my blog is very new, my work was easy now i am following a specific pattern to avoid syntax errors. i don't know whether this is going to help with my search results or not. But I strongly agree with "Any little thing I can do to help a spider digest my content I gladly find time."

By Guest - Fri, 03/16/2007 - 07:51

Google doesn't care.

If anyone doubts that a "broken" page can get indexed and then whether or not it can be positioned highly in SERPs, Google using the string "Does Google care about validation?" (minus the quotes) and check the source of what is likely the top result. (look for a page from cass-hacks.com)

Viewing the source code of the page you should see no doc-type, no html, head or body tags but yet not only is it indexed but is positioned, at least at the time of the writing of this comment, in the #1 position.

That page is part of an ongoing experiment to see how badly a page can be messed up and still get indexed but so far, content relevance still rules all.

As much as I wished extra credit were given for valid code it's not.

But, does that mean that I will stop validating each and every page and making sure they are perfect? No, the benefits of being able to work from valid code is much more valuable to me than the time it takes to validate and fix errors. It is even more valuable to the next person who may work on the code I originally created because they will also know that they are starting out with valid code and that saves a LOT of time!