Hello, When i built my website, i didn't give much attention whether my pages are xhtml 1.0 valid or not, i was just testing them in different browsers .. Today I made most of my pages Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and what I noticed is visits and page views to the website increased instantly by approx 40% ... Is this just a coincidence? or there IS a relationship between the increase in traffic and validation??
that is correct a clean validated code from top to bottom results in clean recognition/processing of all page content from top to bottom ... while SOME of the code errors MAY cause an incomplete page indexing and hence in lower SERPS = less traffic or even NO serps depending n where the error and what kind of code error
Thanks for the reply, Whats "SERPS" ? related to search engines ?? if so, will search engine recognize that the pages became valid xhtml trans instantly?
SERPS a G search shows the official definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_results_page before G can have a clean G index of all your pages you want to compete on the www market. to facilitate the work for G and all other major SE to have all pages crawled/indexed give all pages meta tags and titles ( just all the basics SEO ) you need to get a good ranking
I think it was just a coincidence. Changing your pages to valid XHTML wouldn't instantaneously make them rise in the SERPs. It would take some time for Google to index your pages. Do you know where the extra traffic came from? That might explain things.