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Depreciated html and SEO

by bcmwp
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Is SEO position penalized for using depreciated html tags like font, strong, center, etc.? I haven't been able to find an answer.
#depreciated #html #seo
  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    No, not at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    Nope. Not meeting current W3C standards is nothing to do with SEO.

    The only thing you could get marked down for is site load times.
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      I would have to agree with the guys also... it does not affect it one bit..
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    I disagree. I believe good, compliant code is one of the 200 factors Google claims to consider when ranking a page.
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    • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
      Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

      I disagree. I believe good, compliant code is one of the 200 factors Google claims to consider when ranking a page.
      They claim to consider it but, in practice, they don't seem to unless the code won't render properly enough to be spidered. When a site can't be rendered in text mode this is usually due to coding errors, such as mismatched tags, not stuff like using <b> instead of <strong> or tables instead of divs.

      You have to remember also that there are a lot of old websites out there that haven't been updated in quite some time and use circa 1998 techniques. Many of them rank well due to age and links.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kurt
        Originally Posted by bgmacaw View Post

        They claim to consider it but, in practice, they don't seem to unless the code won't render properly enough to be spidered. When a site can't be rendered in text mode this is usually due to coding errors, such as mismatched tags, not stuff like using <b> instead of <strong> or tables instead of divs.

        You have to remember also that there are a lot of old websites out there that haven't been updated in quite some time and use circa 1998 techniques. Many of them rank well due to age and links.
        As I said in my first post, I believe it's among the 200+ factors, which means there are many other factors, such as age and links that may also influence the ranking, and quite possibly have a stonger influence on ranking than good code does.

        I do agree that there's very probably no difference between <b> or <strong>, etc.

        It's simple logic really, having good code will never hurt and it may help, so why not have good code? I doubt it's good for the SERPs to have pages with tables that don't display properly when another page of "equal quality" has proper layout.
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