Posted on Friday, 19th December 2008 by Jeff
One of the most overlooked areas in SEO is your website’s compliance with W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards. In fact, I was amazed at the number of professional SEO companies that didn’t have a website that was W3C compliant! Some SEO experts will agree that having a website that is W3C compliant helps you rank a little better than websites that aren’t. Others will say that this is more true with Yahoo than it is with Google. So how exactly do you check to see if your website is W3C compliant? The easiest way to do this is to use the validator tool that the World Wide Web Consortium provides for you. This tool will immediately tell you whether or not your website has any errors in the coding. If it doesn’t, you’ll have the privilege of posting a button on your website stating that your website is fully compliant with W3C standards. Chances are, however, your website will have errors even if you completely designed your site using an HTML editor. The easiest way to fix these errors is to hire a coder off a website such as GetAFreelancer.com to fix everything up for you. This shouldn’t cost any more than $20 and you might experience an additional boost in your search engine rankings. Another benefit of being W3C compliant is knowing that most internet browsers will view your website properly. This is a huge problem since your website could look perfect in one browser and screwed up on another.
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January 1st, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Actually there’s another tool that does this for you in DreamWeaver “check for page errors” box at the bottom. I always have non-threatening errors that need to be fixed. I’m sure if you swing over to my site right now you’ll see a few. Argh!