Comments on: W3C compliance – is it a requirement? http://www.greatwebsitesblog.com/2010/03/w3c-compliance-is-it-a-requirement/ Barry Adams writes about SEO, PPC, Social Media, Web Analytics, Email Marketing, Conversion Optimisation - all aspects of online success Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:47:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Barry Adams http://www.greatwebsitesblog.com/2010/03/w3c-compliance-is-it-a-requirement/comment-page-1/#comment-7277 Barry Adams Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:50:31 +0000 http://www.greatwebsitesblog.com/?p=443#comment-7277 Dutch SEO guru Yoast has written about his thoughts on the W3C compliance issue, and got some of his SEO friends to chime in as well. A worthwhile read: http://yoast.com/w3c-validation-seo/ Dutch SEO guru Yoast has written about his thoughts on the W3C compliance issue, and got some of his SEO friends to chime in as well. A worthwhile read:
http://yoast.com/w3c-validation-seo/

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]]> By: Barry Adams http://www.greatwebsitesblog.com/2010/03/w3c-compliance-is-it-a-requirement/comment-page-1/#comment-6965 Barry Adams Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:28:46 +0000 http://www.greatwebsitesblog.com/?p=443#comment-6965 @Rafael - Clean code, yes. As I say in the last few paragraphs, it's good to strive towards compliant code as it helps search engines with crawling & indexation. But full 100% compliance is not an SEO requirement. Matt Cutts from Google has even come out and said that fully compliant code is not a ranking factor. As I say in my article, as long as the code is clean enough to distinguish style, navigation, and content, that's as far as is necessary from a purely SEO point of view. @Rafael – Clean code, yes. As I say in the last few paragraphs, it’s good to strive towards compliant code as it helps search engines with crawling & indexation.

But full 100% compliance is not an SEO requirement. Matt Cutts from Google has even come out and said that fully compliant code is not a ranking factor. As I say in my article, as long as the code is clean enough to distinguish style, navigation, and content, that’s as far as is necessary from a purely SEO point of view.

]]> By: Rafael Montilla http://www.greatwebsitesblog.com/2010/03/w3c-compliance-is-it-a-requirement/comment-page-1/#comment-6964 Rafael Montilla Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:20:45 +0000 http://www.greatwebsitesblog.com/?p=443#comment-6964 The W3C compliance is a SEO factor. I had a client in Mexico that his Website's PHP code was terrible, We chaged everything, We built the Website from 0 but we kept the same Urls, same day we chaged the code, his visits jumped 500% and staed there. after I had some problem with one his manager and we stop working with them, after they changed back to the old code now they have very few visits. This proves me that the clean code is a SEO factor. The W3C compliance is a SEO factor. I had a client in Mexico that his Website’s PHP code was terrible, We chaged everything, We built the Website from 0 but we kept the same Urls, same day we chaged the code, his visits jumped 500% and staed there. after I had some problem with one his manager and we stop working with them, after they changed back to the old code now they have very few visits.
This proves me that the clean code is a SEO factor.

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