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Originally Posted by BossWebmaster
code validation has 0% influence on SEO, or anything else for that matter... |
That is quite a bold statement.... albeit incorrect.
The leading cause of robots choking and tripping is the use of poor HTML coding. If a page cannot be crawled then it is not included in the index and if it is not in the index it cannot rank for it's keywords.
And as the html is the foundation it is best that it is validated...you would not want the cement foundation of your home to be sub standard......why would you want or accept poor coding of your business website????
There fore a cleanly coded site is likely to see more pages indexed quicker than a poorly coded site.
Also if all things are equal except the coding a validated site will win over one that is not.
CSS & xhtml sites are known to win in the rankings war for highly competitive search terms.
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