SEO Tycoon

**lynxus** · 08-18-2010, 05:17 PM

Now,
Im sure the answer to this is a big no,
As I would hope search engines are not this picky,
However if anyone in the "know" knows the real answer.

Let me know?

Ive made parts of my site 100% valid ( just cos i was bored and it was like 99.9% valid before. ) but wondered if it would have any actual positive effects?

Thanks
G

**chrishirst** · 08-18-2010, 05:23 PM

You're right. No it doesn't.

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/seo-ta...ffect-seo.html

**lynxus** · 08-18-2010, 05:51 PM

Ah thought as much

, I suppose i shulda searched lol.

Del thread if ya fancy it.

Thanks
G

**metho** · 05:58 PM

Correct HTML plays a part, not to the extent of W3C valid though. If you read the webmaster guidelines at the biggies, ensuring your pages uses correct html gets a mention.

How you interpret 'correct HTML' is a moot point. But it seems logical that if your web pages are utterly foul with html errors and semantically poor markup, it aint going to do the search engines any favours in determining a ranking.

**vinay.desi9n** · 09-17-2010, 08:19 AM

100 percent valid sites does not get traffic to your website. but you will get w3c standard approved certificate to your website which help little to improve your website reputation

**chrishirst** · 09-17-2010, 01:52 PM

Quote:

improve your website reputation

How exactly?

**smoseley** · 09-17-2010, 02:28 PM

w3c compliance does one thing - it helps you ensure that your HTML is formatted correctly, which often times helps solve odd cross-browser rendering bugs, and may help with SEO in a very minor way (< 1%) for potential spider parsing errors. Nothing you should concern yourself with in terms of SEO, though.

**daisy192** · 09-20-2010, 06:50 AM

Yes that's right it have not any positive effect.