jaymc Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Hi, I have just ran the W3 validator on my website home page and it has found 393 errors I am told this can cause problems with SEO optimisation, e.g. bots may not be able to read code However, most of the errors are I dont have / at the end of <BR> for example <BR /> And <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="English"> should be <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="English" /> Also, UPPER CASE is used Is this something I need to correct to help SEO. I know its standards, but its a lot of work just to get that validator to turn green. I only want to do it if its going to benefit SEO for sure Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 HTML Tidy will fix such errors in seconds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaymc Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 pages are nested in php code so cant just have it auto fix Will this effect seo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Hard to say. Thing is: if your markup is valid, you know 100% that it doesn't pose problems to crawlers. If it isn't valid, you know nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaymc Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 I mean in general is google going to have an issue if I have <BR> instead of <br /> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Not likely, but you should ask Google to be sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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