does this hurt?

[Calisonder]

does it hurt with SEO if your site isn't consistant with it's tags? for exaple:

if sometimes i use <table></table> and other times on the same page i use <TALBE/TABLE>

or for instance if in some tags i use quotes like <img src="image.jpg"> and other times i use <img src=image.jpg>


i know that html is very forgiving, but do these practices hurt me?

Thank you in advance. I really look foward to multiple replys.

[Cricket]

As long as errors do not prevent the bots from crawling your site, it is not known to have an impact on your SEO efforts. Just curious though, why not just learn to create W3C complient code so that you can worry far less about how your site renders in multiple browsers?

[Yandel]

No, not at all.
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[Calisonder]

i used to save my images and then right all my code from scratch. but i found that if i left photoshop write the base of my html code, it saves a lot of time. For years I have typed all my code in lower case and used all the proper parenthesis. but when PS writes the code it is in ALL CAPS and doesn't use parenthesis. I don't fell like going through and changing everything but i may, because i love using lower case and i have heard that as long as you stay consistant throughout your page, it is ok.



thank you so much for your answer to my question

[hhheng]

It doesn't hurt SEO of you website. But maybe your site will show differently in different browsers. Better comform to W3C standards.

[Dotster]

Originally Posted by hhheng

It doesn't hurt SEO of you website. But maybe your site will show differently in different browsers. Better comform to W3C standards.

Interesting. Can you give a link to learn more about W3C standards, please.

[TheBrain]

Here you go: The World Wide Web Consortium. A simple w3c compliance or w3c standards google search would have given you the answer faster.

[cessai]

i don't think so...

[Webfu]

I agree, I don't think different coding like that has negative effect on SEO either.

[ninjashoes]

I use firebox with the IE plugin so I can switch on teh fly and make adjustments.

[Bluecircle]

I always check my websites with both Firefox and IE to make sure it displays correctly.

[TheBrain]

Originally Posted by cessai

i don't think so...

What exactly do you mean? That w3c compliance doens't affect SEO or that google gives a faster answer?

No one here said W3C compliance stands for SEO, but for accessibility. W3C sites display correctly (with small differences) in all major browsers. These are simple web design standards any web coder should know.

[Thomas Schulz]

I agree it does not matter much for SEO... That said, check:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
4.2. Element and attribute names must be in lower case

Anyways, I am sure most crawlers do not care, I don't for instance

[tork311]

I can't remember where Matt Cutts said it but being w3 compliant does not matter to Google. They understand that web masters are gong to make mistakes and it would do end users more harm that good to not show pages with dummy web masters like my guy who can't code to save his butt.

[TheBrain]

I remember reading that somewhere too. But it makes really no sense to debate whether W3 compliance is important for the SE or not. After all, we create our sites for the users! They should matter. And if w3 provides for accessibility, then let's just validate the markup. It's not so difficult after all. The guidelines are clear and the validator points out the mistakes clearly!

[QwkSand]

Originally Posted by Thomas Schulz

I agree it does not matter much for SEO... That said, check:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
4.2. Element and attribute names must be in lower case

Anyways, I am sure most crawlers do not care, I don't for instance

thanks for this! whew!

I had the same problem with tag inconsistency and decided to make them all lowercases in the end. I didn't care and I didn't look it up if it was alright or not.