Re: validator.w3.org
Mike thanks a lot for sharing the mails above. But I think you did not pose the issue as I previous mentioned.
One last time:
Which for example are the most important html tags in terms of ranking? Lets say, the title tag? Or maybe also headings?
So, I had a client who had the the following on his pages (lets take the homepage here):
<title="Northern Cyprus Hotel Manolya"></title> instead of <title>Northern Cyprus Hotel Manolya</title>.
Oh and by the way they had for a first heading tag:
<h1="North Cyprus Hotel Manolya"></h1>, instead of <h1>North Cyprus Hotel Manolya</h1>
So, can you please ask the employees of Google and Yahoo, how do their bots interpretate the above? As a title and heading tags? Or just plain text?
If they tell us that their bots extract and interpretate the above as title and heading tags, then I will admit that I am wrong. But in terms of software engineering and development, I cannot believe that they will tell that I am wrong.
Can you please give another try? Or did you mentioned this example already?
Me and my team have developed a server side solution, to strip off any piece of code and content on our pages. If you are really right, we can strip off all our pages html code, and serve the search engines only text. If that is what they want. But would they be happy with that? In terms of crawlability maybe yes. But will be be ranked the same well?
This is a very honest question, and not an attempt to convince anyone that I am right.
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