jaymc Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 My website now passes W3C validator which I have done to try and help SEO Im just wondering. the logo they allow you to put on your website to show its valid, does google take notice of it? In other words, if google see's that I have taken the time to make the code valid to standards will it give me more of an advantage with google in terms of SEO? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 How is google even supposed to know what image it is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaymc Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Maybe google reads image location... I was told its a special thing e.g. google and W3C have teamed up kind of thing..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 First off, anyone can put this image on their site, so no search engine can rely on this as indicator that the site has valid markup. Second, as far as I remember W3C recommends putting this image on your own server. It's simple: if your markup is valid, the crawler will have no problems with parsing your page. If it's not, it might not be indexed correctly (or at all). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Google wouldn't use the image as an indicator. Remember - any one can post that image on their server. They can illegally copy it or rip it off W3's website. Google is such a strong search engine, that it can check whether your html code is valid or not. Google uses millions of smal factors such as these to determine your overal page rank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBlue Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Having valid code has no effect in relation to SEO, there however is some obvious coding related guidelines you must follow to insure the best possible indexing. It is claimed by some that using XHTML will improve your placement in the Serps, but that is not the case. Proper use of HTML is just as effective, and that's while you have no benefits from using XHTML, unless you combine it with other xml based languages. It is actually more difficult to use xhtml, since you also need to make sure your server is serving it with the correct mime-type. It is not recommended to serve it as text/html for older browsers, since this introduces a number of other problems. Code validity is currently only a consideration to a certain level when optimizing, meaning that you could potentially leave our closing tags for paragraphs, use brs instead of beginning a new paragraph, use b, i, and font tags. It wouldn't matter, that doesn't mean that its a good idea though. You don't need to think very long about it, before you could determine it would be unfair to older sites, with invalid coding. Backwards compatibility has always been a high priority, and will likely continue to be for many years. It is however recommended that new sites/documents follow the standards to the extend practically possible. It usually comes down to few coding related subjects, such as correct usage of headlines, internal link structure, incomming links, and outgoing links. The search engines dosn't care if you use HTML or XHTML, if you pay more atention, then it wouldn't take long to notice that XHTML is just HTML in XML. Seen from the search engines point of view, clean XHTML sites may as well be normal HTML sites with extra slash'es thrown in, it becomes even more of a mess if they are served as text/html. I don't think it would be practical, or there would be any point whatsoever, for search engines to check for code validity. They simply pharse the sites and documents they encounter, and pick up the bits they where programmed to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBlue Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Let me throw this in as well. The logo you mention also usually links to the w3c validator, effectively giving them a free backlink, which likely increases their PageRank. Now consider why they got a PageRank of 9/10 on google. Likely because to many unknowingly or knowingly webmasters chose to provide them with free backlinks, the links are likely to be relevant as well, since those including the logo are likely to have relevant keywords on their page. I would be sure to throw in a rel="nofollow" on the link, if i where to include it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 I'd rather think that they got their pagerank, by being actually most popular HTML validator around (not to mention being the organisation that sets up internet standards and a site that had page rank hardcoded to 10 when it was first introduced). Links from low ranked pages actually pull down pagerank of target page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBlue Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 I'd rather think that they got their pagerank, by being actually most popular HTML validator around (not to mention being the organisation that sets up internet standards and a site that had page rank hardcoded to 10 when it was first introduced). Links from low ranked pages actually pull down pagerank of target page. That is incorrect, then we would have to many sites with no PageRank left whatsoever. And it would be far to easily subject to abuse. Normally backlinks wont hurt your site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Ok. I reread the pagerank description and you're right. Maybe it has changed since I read it last time (which is some 3 years ago). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaymc Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 Thanks for comments guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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