Valid HTML Markup And SEO?

[LN2]

Hey guys,

Just a short question here... How important is having your site HTML valid? Does it have any effect on SEO at all?

[Dean Kirkland]

I've seen sites with awful coding rank really well. It's probably a small factor out of the 200+ other factors they are looking for.

[patrick0001]

Good web structure easier search engine bot to indexing a page. This video explain it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XlKn...ure=plpp_video

[LN2]

Originally Posted by Dean Kirkland

I've seen sites with awful coding rank really well. It's probably a small factor out of the 200+ other factors they are looking for.

Yeah, same here mate, I've seen lots of sites with invalid markup rank really well, but I wasn't sure if it was a deciding factor Google uses to rank sites.

Originally Posted by patrick0001

Good web structure easier search engine bot to indexing a page. This video explain it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XlKn...ure=plpp_video

Thanks a lot for that link buddy. It would seem that small errors such as those that would be valid in HTML1.0 but not in HTML5 wouldn't matter too much, as long as the site or page passed cross-browser testing, since most modern browsers are able to deal with those kind of errors

Thanks again!

[patrick0001]

The most important thing, the website able to deliver the relevant message to reader. When it is relevant, Google will give more credit to the website.

As human being is common to make some mistake. So mirror error on grammar, spelling, markup is not really a big deal.

[LN2]

Perfect. I've got around 15 HTML errors at the moment, nothing major, so I wont worry about them for now

[curier]

in my opinion the validation of the code will help you minimize your page load time. this of course has a good seo effect. Google implemented this because in there algoritm because visitors will leave the site if it wont load in 4 seconds . so in conclusion the html validation is good

[Noahqw]

If your HTML is poorly written than you might want to think about revising it. Google understands that they're are some people who prefer to hand write their code and so they're smart about overlooking or guessing what the HTML was supposed to mean. So I wouldn't worry if you have a few HTML mistakes but if its several of mistakes than you should revise it.

[addlinkweb]

it is the main part of SEO, its called on-page SEO, by skipping this part your website can't achieve good rankings

[dofollowforum]

Eeep! My website was showing 0 errors just a few days back, and haven't seem to have changed anything yet a couple of errors showed up >.<

[Ord Allenbea]

I do not waste my time checking with any html validators and I certainly do not link to w3.org within my html. The html is parsed by search engine bots and I have not seen anything that would include html so called validation as a ranking factor.

[HTMLBasicTutor]

Originally Posted by LN2

Hey guys,

Just a short question here... How important is having your site HTML valid? Does it have any effect on SEO at all?

Consider:
If your site is cross-browser compatible (using valid (X)HTML is part of this but not the be all solution) then this snowballs into people tweeting about your page/site, bookmarking your site, mentions on Facebook and other social networks, mentioning on their own site and generally spreading the word for you. These are all FREE incoming links without you going hunting for them.