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Originally Posted by idansh
I don't understand why anybody needs it ,it just maketing toy, there is no real usage for it
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Originally Posted by weslinda
idansh...really? that's what you've taken away from this entire thread? it's a marketing ploy?
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There is a fight between W3C trying to make standards, that is in the end to make life easier for people and important companies and writers. This
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Originally Posted by mike
Reply #6
"Mike,
No problem - here's my quote.
In exhaustive testing from many, many experts in the field - from Dan Thies to Greg Boser to myself (and even the contentious but ruthlessly picky Michael Martinez) - there has never been any evidence whatsoever to suggest that a page that validates the W3C standards would be considered more valuable or rank higher at the search engines.
Furthermore, search engine representatives like Matt Cutts & Priyank Garg (Yahoo!) have publicly stated on search industry panels that they believe W3C validation does not inherently add to a user's experience or satisfaction with a search result and thus do not include it in their algorithms.
The logic behind this is somewhat infalliable - great content doesn't always validate (in fact, often it doesn't) and perfect validation is no indication that the content matter is high quality.
Spammers can actually validate their material much more easily than large companies, media organizations or other "trusted" sources (whose programming, as many know, is often FUBAR), so why would the search engines use it as a quality signal?"
- Rand Fishkin
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is a typical example.
"Spammers can actually validate their material much more easily than large companies, media organizations or other "trusted" sources (whose programming, as many know, is often FUBAR), so why would the search engines use it as a quality signal?""
Never be an advocat of spagetthi coding / markup nor spamming.
I will launch a new concept:
Spagetthi spamming.
May be I should end my posting in this thread with the following Norwegian saying.
I give up so you can stay wrong.