Proper HTML formatting - does it affect SE rating?
 

How important is to use the latest HTML standards for getting good SE rating?

Could it be that blogs rank so high in SEs partly because they are usually properly formatted?

I'm not exactly sure what you're referring to, but if your HTML isn't formatted correctly it's not likely to display correctly across different browsers.

Follow these standards and you won't have any problems: W3 Schools

Since search engines view your site as text complying to web standards is vital, some browsers can forgive a broken tag or two, but if a search engine cannot see it then certain things will never get listed or spidered properly.

I don't know how to formulate my question correctly, as web standards is completely unknown world to me.

I'm using Dreamweaver 8 for building my sites. Even though, it can produce good looking stuff, I believe, it uses old-school HTML ( tags and etc.).
As I understand, it is advisable for web developers to use new-age page formatting language. Is it called XHTML?

Maybe someone can give a few guides here.

elKabong 2008-09-08 11:13 PM W3 Schools My advice would be to learn how to manually code html first, it's super easy and can be learned in just a few days. By learning to code html manually you'll understand what the code actually doing, which is hidden when you use some of the fancier web design software. Once you've html down, then learn some basic css and javascript, and that's really all you'll need to build free sites.

Halfdeck 2008-09-28 10:55 AM Google doesn't use WC3 compliance as a ranking factor. That said, there are cases where badly botched HTML will cause issues: e.g. META description / TITLE not properly picked up by Googlebot due to malformed code. Best practice is to run a site through a validator at least once. No need to fix stuff like & in URLs just make sure you got no major issues (e.g. screwy HTML nesting, unclosed ).

boobookitty 2008-10-02 09:47 PM Quote: Originally Posted by Halfdeck (Post 422607) Best practice is to run a site through a validator at least once. No need to fix stuff like & in URLs just make sure you got no major issues (e.g. screwy HTML nesting, unclosed ). I like this one: http://www.htmlvalidator.com/lite/ I agree that you don't have to be W3 compliant to be spidered. None of my sites are and they get spidered.

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