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Originally Posted by Seopro
I think all search engines are members of the W3C and I believe they will place a site written in standards above a site that is not with all things being equal. I have never failed to put a site in the top 10 that had valid code. That has just been my observation. On one key phrase affordable seo company oregon I have #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #10 even though there is hardly any competition. On affordable web design company (yahoo) I have been #1 for 14 months with valid code. And on google I have a #1 with a PR2 ahead of a PR6 because I have valid code and he does not. I have notice this several times with not just myself but with other designers that use web standards.
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There's no competition what so ever, so it really has nothing to do with the code being validated. Try to validate the page he gave with tables, it also has HTML errors... If your logic was correct, he shouldn't have had high rankings with the old site either. So the problem is definitely not related to how valid the HTML code is.
Valid code is of no concern what so ever to a search engine. A website definitely does NOT gain points for having valid code. Neither does it lose points for having invalid code. However, valid code does make it a lot easier for a search engine to understand the content of the page and in that respect it does help.
But does valid code mean that you use h1 tags and p tags for example? AFAIK, it doesnt. Nor those the validation look at what was written in the title, metas and the actual content of the page. This is
SEO related and not code related.
Pebbles,.... In case the URL's of your pages changed, did you use 301 redirects to the new URL's?
Did you change anchor texts in the links in your website? If you have, change the link texts back to what they were when you did have better rankings. That will probably do a lot of good.
In any way,.. just time will resolve this problem. A major site change like this doesn't happen without some ripples in the water,.. :)