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jesbasementsystems
Joined: Sep 27, 2001
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 00:48
How important is it that my pages come up clean in the html validator? I get a good amny errors but I'm not sure if making changes to correct is a necessity. Does it affect ranking?
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 01:00
It can affect ranking. Clean code will always be easier for bots to spider. Some types of errors can stop a page from being indexed at all.
Why would you knowingly leave any error in your page? Surely, you do the "best possible job" when you code a page?
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jesbasementsystems
Joined: Sep 27, 2001
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Posted: 2005-Nov-25 01:02
The errors are get are minimal. For example, in the bgcolor tag, I have a "#" sign, which the validator says is a no-no. Just wondering if its worth the effort to go through several hundred pages to change this.
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codefool
Joined: Sep 01, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Nov-27 01:30
According to Google Webmaster Guideline, it is important to have a correct HTML. The wording is "Check for broken links and correct HTML".
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Mark Wolk
Joined: Sep 19, 1999
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Posted: 2005-Nov-28 22:38
The "#" sign should not be a problem. By the way, have you checked Google's homepage? - It's full of mistakes.
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g1smd
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Posted: 2005-Nov-29 01:59
Just because a multi-bazillion dollar company can get away with it, doesn't mean that your site will....
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jesbasementsystems
Joined: Sep 27, 2001
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Posted: 2005-Nov-29 12:54
maybe mines a multi bazillion site too 
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lizardz
Joined: Nov 12, 2004
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Posted: 2005-Nov-29 20:11
your site loads phenomenally slowly, I doubt any user on dialup will ever stay on it.
If I were you I'd stop worrying about validation and start worrying about onpage optimization, get the total page size down massively, by I'd say at least 4 times, and get the site on a faster server.
The html itself is acceptable, but the number of images used to construct the page isn't. At around 4 megabits per second, this page took over 10 seconds to finish loading, maybe 12-15. That is radically unacceptable, I'd say this is one of the worst servers I've ever seen, and I'm afraid to even check the full page size, but I checked with webpageoptimization.com, 129 kB, but that site doesn't appear to actually download the images, it just gets the image data, so its estimated times don't match what I'm seeing live. that means an amazingly slow web server.
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jesbasementsystems
Joined: Sep 27, 2001
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Posted: 2005-Nov-30 14:55
thats a problem right now, my web guys are doing something and told me it may be slow over the next day or two until they work out the kinks. Something with a ew t1 line I believe.
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