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While validating code can help to eliminate mistakes that could cause ranking problems (ie broken links) "validated code" unto itself will not provide any "advantage".

If Google were to be applying some sort of "advantage" for validated code, they'd have to be validating every page they index. Since Google doesn't index a page as a whole, they can't be validating it and thus, cannot be applying an advantage.

Dave

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