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How much, do you imagine, does the HTML validation of your pages effect SE bots and indexing. Or do you think that it plays no factor at all?
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We can only guess. We don't know the extent to which the SE bots can correctly spider a page with broken HTML. The only thing I assume is the major SEs have no problems crawling/indexing a WC3 Valid HTML page -- but even that's a big assumption. I've written a few parsers using regexp and I'll say its not hard for a parser to choke on some random /unexpected stuff on a page. But the final answer to your question really is "we don't know."
If you're asking SHOULD I validate my HTML pages, my answer is yeah why chance it?