Does W3 validating code help SEO

Hi all,

I just wanted to present this question to all you SEO savvy people out there. I have recently been building websites with W3 compliant code as an added SEO feature. Do you think that it helps with SEO and if so, do you know if there are any statistics out there on the web that show how much it helps?

Thanks in advance

 

Whether your code is compliant or not has nothing to do with serps. It is however accurate that proper semantic markup is a much better practice in terms of proper Htags, etc.

Approximately 80 percent of the web(something like that) is riddled with dodgy markup. If Google used standards compliant code as one of their markers to return pages, they would no longer return the most relevant results for various terms.

Hope that helps,
Nigel

 

It DOES help if you consider a fast loading site better for rankings..
faster = bots can crawl it quicker/easier

I would say to try and get your sites as valid as possible.. having a dozen errors isn't great, but it isn't bad.. having 300 validation errors will cause problems..

 

yes this helps in seo. validation is very important for seo prospects.

 

Don't think it matters with Big G.
read their recent post in the google webmaster blog for more clarifications.

 

I have a site currently no.1 in Google Philippines for these keywords "computer repair and PC repair". I just checked it and it has 74 errors. It depends maybe on how competitive the keyword you are targeting and where you are competing.

 

No, Matt Cutts says it does not help. However I still do it on all sites I create.

 

Not a big SEO factor. Just make sure the bots can crawl your site.

 

I've always wondered that myself. I feel that validating it would be a good idea (in general) but for SEO purposes... never really thought it would help that much. I suppose it couldn't hurt... W3 is what SE's are looking for, so validating may as well be worth it.

 

Its a factor, but among hundreds, I think you should stive for valid code, but google doesn't even stick to it.

validator.w3.org/ it is worthwhile because it should mean your site loads faster, is more efficient and should show up the same in most browsers.

 

Although it is not needed, it does show you the errors in your design.

 

No it doesn't matter at all, does Google.com validatates ? No it doesn't , but making a page with small number of CSS files and JS files does help, than using more text versus HTML Tags does help ( percent of text in html and actual text ) making logical markup does help

  <h1> Main title </h1>
  <p> main description</p>

 <h2>sub section</h2>
  <p>describe sub section</p>

HTML:

and some relevant link off that page does help