W3C Validator Question

Hello,
I am just finish from webpage and after putting it on the internet, my friend said to me that I should use :
http://validator.w3.org/

Whe I used it i got:
Result: Failed validation, 188 errors
What should I do??
Is W3C Validator important for SEO?

Thanks

 

if you have a page without errors, se spiders can "read" better your page's content so this is quite a good reason to start correcting them

 

That is a great tool I use it also. Yes you should validate all pages of your website it makes things alot easier for the spiders.

Here is some info from my site about w3c.

What is the advantage of having your website valid?

A website built to comply with the W3C Standards make web documents more accessible to all types of users and machine agents, and more visible to search engines. Rankings are often dramatically higher, and in no case have we seen rankings drop after conversion to standards. Likewise, the summary information provided by the search engine is more likely to display meaningful content from the document.

 

188 errors? not warnings?

Holy smolly, what did you use to make that page? I presume you hand coded it?

Compliant mark-up should result in less rendering issues across browsers and platforms. From an SEO perspective, non-compliant mark-up is more likely to annoy the spiders as they go about their work, reducing the chances of your pages ranking well.

There's a nice plugin for FF taht validates your code as you browse - I think its called HTML Tidy.

 

Is there Validator for JS, CSS, RSS

Thanks

 

For CSS and RSS you will find validator on the W3C web site.

http://validator.w3.org/feed/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

 

@Monty Thx
I think I have alot of work today

 

W3C is not important. In the future SE might start recognizing it though.

 

I think it's important to have error free bugs. However W3C likes to generate errors for things that are not errors. Such as strange variables in javascript code. And some people (important people) don't like the validator service because it will validate broken code (I read this in a post by someone who left the W3C group over concerns).

I use notepad ++ for my hand coding of HTML (only thing I do) and it includes a little line counter thing so it's really easy to track down and fix the errors W3C spits at me.

 

If your using FF then try developer tools plugin and firebug plugin - they will validate all the above.

Rgds

Richard

 

Can you give me the link of these plugins??

I tried tidy and i got these warning:

From 188 error to 3 warnings it's good but how can i remove 'em

Thanks

 

If he was thinking of Web Developer Add-ons for Firefox, here is the link

Very useful tool, but this plugins use the W3C validator tools by default to validate your pages, so...

 

Yep thats the one and the other is Html Validator which is here

The plugin above uses html tidy which is a W3C project but whats the problem with that?

 

I meant Web Developer add-ons use the same validator as the one already given (the W3C validator) and I thought he was expecting another one. so...