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« on: May 17, 2007, 08:57:56 PM »

Just followed this interesting seo experiment Visit through proxy that proves - or at least gives a strong clue - that Google cares about valid xhtml.

The experiment looks easy to understand. They created a web site that has 4 duplicate pages but they had :

  • 1 Valid Html + CSS
  • 1 Valid HTML + Invalid CSS
  • 1 Invalid HTML + Valid CSS
  • 1 Invalid HTML + Invalid CSS

They used the same anchor text to link to these pages, and for some reason Google picked the page that has valid xhtml & CSS. This may not mean something by itself, but I guess the fact that Google recognizes valid pages give me something to think for the future Smiley

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« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2007, 10:52:51 PM »

I noticed that websites after an update (to valid code) getting a better ranking in the SERP's


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« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2007, 12:17:47 AM »

Interesting, one more reason to make sure your markup is valid.


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« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2007, 06:20:08 AM »

I knew it... always been a validation evangelist...

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