How important is well written html?

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  1. #1
    Hi all,

    I know it is important to have a website that is written with efficient, well written html code to get it loading fast. I was wondering how important it is when it comes to getting a good ranking though.

    Does it have any impact at all?

    Thanks.
     
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  2. CaffinePhil

    CaffinePhil Banned

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    Other than the spiders been able to crawl it faster I would say it has no other impact than that!
     
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  3. magoo

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    Personally I don't think it matters. Broken links might count against you but other than that it doesn't matter. You might want to pull out your javascript and css to external files though just to reduce the amount of code on the page
     
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    it matters but only when you have a base. I mean that you already have the site optimized for search engines and this can make an improvement.

    Also it's best to start with the correct site codding because it will be harder to correct errors as you evolve.
     
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    willyboy104 Active Member

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    It helps users to surf through your website, it can help the loading time of the website and help ensure search engines can crawl your website better, it can also help search engine rankings as a knock on effect.
     
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    Jaguar.X.05 Banned

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    well written html is a good factor but not actually an option, rankings will depend on how good your content is and how well is your link building.
     
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    if you have broken tags and shit spiders will not be able to crawl your pages so if you have a broke <h1> at the top of the page the spiders will stop right there and not even see the rest of the page

    so its very important
     
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    4play's right. It's one of the most important things in on-page optimisation. If spider finds an error in code it instantly stops crawling page.

    Internet is too big and if Google, Yahoo or any other SE would crawl broken pages it would be waste of time.
     
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    You can use this website to test whether or not your web page is validated its very useful, as it also shows what is wrong with your website so you can fix it.

    http://validator.w3.org/
     
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    4play where did you get that information about Google stopping spidering when they find broken tags? I've worked on sites in the past with terrible html that had been completely spidered by Google and had good rankings.
     
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    In the case of html webpage, the spider will crawl faster than a php web page.... so indexing will take faster... I think nothing more!!!!!!!
     
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