Hi everyone.

Love the forum. Just joined. Have been a member of another webmaster forum and im really impressed with this one.

Hopefully you can help me with some information. I have asked this question in other forums and i am getting conflicting information all over the place that is just leaving me confused

I know very little html. I want to build a site witha WYSIWYG editor called web plus 9 which enables you to build sites without knowing html. (i have used this program and i am fimilar with it) I have a reasonable grip on SEO Techniques for ranking high in Google etc. My problem is this.

I have been told by some that if i do this i will struggle re ranking high as these editors generate poor html code that will effect my abilty to rank high and that i will be behind the 8 ball to begin with. Then i have heard from others that the search engines are smart enough to ignore the "extra code" that webplus9 generates.

I really want to do the site myself so i have control. I dont have time to learn html or new programs as i am very busy. however i dont want to be doing all the right things re SEO only to find that my problem isnt my effort or SEO techniques but the webplus editor.

What are your thoughts on this?

I would really appreciate some help with my dilema. Thank you very much in advance.

It really depends on how much spaghetti code the editor generates... if it's not a huge ammount, then you shouldn't have any reason to worry.

The cleanliness of your code does play a part in SEO, but not as much as other things. The search engines aren't going to peanalize you too much for a bit of extra code. Take a look at the source after you've designed a page a see if it's completely full of millions of extra <font> tags, useless CSS, etc. If it is, then you might have cause for concern...

Thanks for the fast reply.

Would it be possible for me to send you the code to have a look??

Cheers

just post a link to a page

but unless the code is so bad it won't appear in a browser properly SEs will have no problem.

There are many excellent SEO reasons to write clean code but the SEs reading the page code isn't one of them.

People these days are just too bothered with SEO, that it is essentially destroying sites, not making them. Google's page rank is based entirely on the links in and out to your site. So, therefore the design and such should not effect it on a primary basis.

You need to think more along the lines of what you want, not what Google wants.

Absolutely

Focus on real visitors. As soon as you start building your site with the SEs in mind primarily, You'll get it wrong.