Im Down To 2 W3 Errors - Please Help !

i am only getting these two errors :

Line 108, Column 42: document type does not allow element "TD" here; assuming missing "TR" start-tag.

<td valign="top" width="311"  class="m1bg">

Code (markup):

Line 120, Column 28: start tag for "TR" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this.

  <td width=200 height=100>

Code (markup):

PLEASE HELP THANKS !

 

try adding double quotes to your td attributes i.e

<td width="200" height="100">

Code (markup):

 

It seems that you missed the <tr> tag

where is your site? We must take a look at your pages first.

 

IT WAS THE TR TAG THANKS . . . now i am running into this these are runing side by side and NOT top to bottom which is what i need.

please help one last time THANKS !

<table>
<tr>
    <td width=200 height=100>
    <img src='/insurance_images/cheap_ins.png' name='PictureBox' width='200' height='100' alt='CHEAP Car Auto Insurance'>
	</td>

    <td id=CaptionBox class=Caption align=center bgcolor=000000>
    Cheap Insurance FREE Quotes
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Code (markup):

 

<img src='/insurance_images/cheap_ins.png' name='PictureBox' width='200' height='100' alt='CHEAP Car Auto Insurance'>
img tag should be close

<img src='/insurance_images/cheap_ins.png' name='PictureBox' width='200' height='100' alt='CHEAP Car Auto Insurance' />
</td>

 

<table>
<tr>
    <td width=200 height=100>
    <img src='/insurance_images/cheap_ins.png' name='PictureBox' width='200' height='100' alt='CHEAP Car Auto Insurance'>
	</td>
[B]</tr>
<tr>
[/B]    <td id=CaptionBox class=Caption align=center bgcolor=000000>
    Cheap Insurance FREE Quotes
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Code (markup):

[/QUOTE]

just add those bold </tr> and <tr> and you're done
but I suggest you to put qoutes on every value eq:
<td id="CaptionBox" class="Caption" align="center" bgcolor="000000">

this will be better

 

THANKS THAT WORKED !

 

Just add / at the end of the img tag

like :<img src="" alt="" />

 

now that i have PASSED the validation . . . do you think that this will help SEO ? i am trying to come up for COMPETIVE keywords and now that the code is VALIDATED do you think that will help ?

 

I wouldn't say having a Valid Markup helps with SEO by any means. I have seen a number of sites with coding errors that still rank #1 in search listings.

As a friend of mine once told me, SEO is like baking a cake...many factors contribute towards the final result. Seeing as crawl bots tend to ignore as much code as possible and focus primarily on the content / keywords, that would suggest validated code matters even less in terms of SEO.

Hope this helps.

 

i can see how that is valid

because i have ALOT of sites with errors ALL OVER THEM still getting ranked but i didnt know if it was just cause the keywords werent that competitive

 

Having compliant code just helps make your site readable on many more platforms. For example, those little problems you just fixed could now mean your site can be viewed on a larger number of PDAs than before.

I gave up worrying about compliant HTML any more because as mentioned - several high ranking sites don't verify.

Take a look at Microsoft and see if you can find ANY site that validates.

 

THE PROOF​

that W3 helps with SEO