Website Validation Error.

I got this error while validating my website.

I know that the problem is in the Meta Description Tag. I made this mistake in 100 odd pages.

My question is how serious this error is? How is it gonna effect my website? Can it prevent Google from indexing pages with errors in search results or remove already indexed pages which accidentally got this error some time back.

I need to know this because lately Google is not indexing news pages from my website. These pages contains this error.

Thanks

 

use this
<meta name="keywords" content="search engine marketing webmaster design" />


add / before >

 

You need to close the meta tag. e.g

<meta name="Description" content="######" />

and not:

<meta name="Description" content="######" >

A quick find and replace will fix this.

 

Closing a tag with /> is a xhtml ending. I'm sure you're not serving your pages as xhtml so, even if you use the xhtml doctype, every browser is treating your pages as html. iow, it doesn't matter.

 

the > instead of /> may not match the doctype in your header. It's not a crucial thing for html... If you leave out a ">" all together though, that can really mess with things.