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Old 06-11-2007, 09:50 PM
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Default Re: validator.w3.org

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Originally Posted by incrediblehelp View Post
I am glad Mike offered some email responses to help forward his position.

I have never thought valid code is needed to rank as that is easy to see with the naked eye in the SERPs everyday. One area I was gray on is if valid code at least "helped" websites rank better and that seems to be untrue from the responses here. Of course I am not talking about crawlability, but simply one website having valid code and one not having valid code with all other items being equal.

Still I will look to limit validation errors just from a design perspective as Webnauts suggests.
Jaan do you want to say here that editing this <title="Northern Cyprus Hotel Manolya"></title> is the same as editing <title>Northern Cyprus Hotel manolya</title>, and that both cases would be be treated or weighted equal by search engines?

Then I guess I never understood software development and semantics. And if that is the case, then I feel ashame.

Embarrassed!
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