In SEO, Why we have to validate the site?

Hi,

can you give me answer of this question that why we have to validate the site?

and is it important?

How much?


Mahi

 

You mean validate the XHTML? It's because if your code is very terrible spiders may not be able to understand it. For example if you had a broken table the spider wouldn't be able to tell which cells are related to each other.

 

thanks for the information...

We can validate all types of sites or only HTML OR XHTML site?

Is it Necessary to validate?

 

Ya dear we can validate all types of site.

If your site is validate than its crawl easily...
Cheers

 

Hi

If You are asking about HTML validation means, Ya Code should be validated as per W3C rules ( for code validation you can use the W3C toolbar). Mostly everybody using the automatic code generator like Dream Viewer for the templates. At that case there is more chance to the mistakes. That mistakes can affect the crawling of spider.

If You are asking about the Form validation means, that is not that much important but it will helps to reduce the unwanted entries or mistakes from the visitors

regards

Kumar

 

As long as you are being spidered OK, you don't HAVE to validate. I has a site with FP code and had numerous errors in the code, I made it all compliant and it made no difference to my SERP's, PR or spider frequency, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

 

without html validation of your website... you can't go high with your SERPS Results..

 

It is a due diligence efforts to develop a website following W3 standards but testing your web pages in different browsers is absolutely necessary.

 

all my sites based on joomla do not pass w3 validation yet get spidered fine. i would like to get w3 validation but too many add-ons and plugins kinda screw it all up.

 

Google does not require HTML Validation. Many of the W3 rules are obsolete and in SEO, you will break rules for an advantage.

HTML Validation is therefore not for SEO but quality control over programmer.

 

Validation is not a must or huge factor in SEO. It would just facilitate the crawling of your pages.... This has led us to talk about its importance...

So, if you are beginning a new site... try to keep the validation... if you find validation errors of an established site... taking time to make it validated may not be advisable. Use that time for more fruitful SEO stuff... then SE bots will find their ways to crawl your site better...

 

I have 108 errors, i have used ewen chias website builder, it just looks like dashes and dots are not recognized , how much problems will i have in the serps ?

 

i agree with catanich.

 

Thanks for support me... friends,

but When we have to validate our site? and how can we validate it?

it is consider as in on - page - optimization or off - page - optimization?

I have my own site and I had done lot of work on it..




Mahi

 

Hello guys

When we have to validate our site? and how can we validate it?

it is consider as in on - page - optimization or off - page - optimization?

Mahi

 

hey mahi..

first validate your home page then you can check individual pages...
If i am wrong please correct me

 

Yes This is true.

 

Thanks rosy!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Ideally you want your site to display properly in all browsers. I use Firefox primarily and I still come across a lot of sites that do not work properly in Firefox.

It's nearly an impossible tax to have perfect code. The goal is not perfection, it's to have good code that displays properly and doesn't prevent the Search Engine Bots that matter from crawling all your pages.

 

Valid markup has nothing to do with SEO really. It does not effect serps. I wish it did. It is important to have proper semantic markup like htags though.

Proper code is good business. It separates the men from the mice.

Nigel