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Originally Posted by wige
I have seen this letter quoted a lot in discussions about whether or not Google wants valid code, but I don't see where the letter mentions validation at all. In fact, the letter only mentions two factors: clean code (which Google seems to be using more and more to refer to lightweight and readable code) and increasing the number of inbound links (surprisingly omitting any mention of relevance, only quality).
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OK Wige. Let put this way. How can an uncle Joe who is building a site with Front Page tell which HTML errors can choke a bot or spoil rankings? Won't he be more safe if he would try to edit valid code?
I had a client who was getting validation errors because:
He had for a title tags <title=Hotel Whatever></title>.
He was not using "alt" attributes.
He had <td> tags before <tr> tags.
...and a lot more.
The pages still displayed in browsers.
Do you think those issues did not have a negative affect for his rankings?