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Google and valid markup websites

by crescendo
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My website is valid markup by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Is this give benefit me to bring my website top in search engines ?

Your opinions will be greatly appreciated
#google #markup #valid #websites
  • Profile picture of the author HunterSnake
    Originally Posted by crescendo View Post

    My website is valid markup by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Is this give benefit me to bring my website top in search engines ?

    Your opinions will be greatly appreciated
    You should create web sites that are W3C compliant.

    There are many benefits to doing this, including the fact that your page tends to load faster. PageSpeed is a factor in rankings, but being W3C valid isn't. Still, create web sites that are valid according to the W3C.

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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    Originally Posted by crescendo View Post

    My website is valid markup by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Is this give benefit me to bring my website top in search engines ?
    No, it is not. I doubt that it's even a consideration at all given that there are so many top ranking sites that appear to be done in FrontPage 98, Microsoft Word and the like.

    Having a site that loads reasonably quickly and isn't terribly obfuscated with random code and widgets helps but you don't have to have a W3C valid site to do that.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Browsers today are not what they were in 1999.
      They are very forgiving. I assume search engines are too.
      I think it's just bragging rights. But since I code by hand most
      of the time, I'm sure I have errors. I know browsers can even
      load in stand-alone php pages with no html/body. However, if
      your site has many errors, javascript errors, or other things that
      make the page look or load bad, obviously the user experience
      goes out the window. But how many millions of users are still
      using old versions of netscape, IE, etc.? I normally KISS.

      Originally Posted by bgmacaw
      Having a site that loads reasonably quickly and isn't terribly obfuscated
      with random code and widgets helps but you don't have to have a W3C
      valid site to do that.
      Yeah. It's that "loads reasonably quickly" that people just don't believe.
      Forgetting all the rest that goes into the google algorithm that is light years
      more important.

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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Brian
    It's nice to have a valid code but even Google's own website doesn't validate
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