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Website Validation Is Important? Who Knew…
  • Posted August 27th, 2009
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  • by Chris
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Website Validation

Have you had a validation, http://validator.w3.org/, run on your website ? If not, you definitely should!

There may a be a lot of people and organizations out there who look past a sloppily programmed website, but by not having a validated website you are making more work for the search engines. Why not create a seamless website that will allow the search engines to crawl happily?

After speaking with Edward Lewis, the validation process became much more clear to me. Although it is often over looked, website validation can play a vital role in your SEO.

I was amazed at some of the validation errors I was seeing on big name sites and shhh… even a few of my own.

If you haven’t run your website through http://www.urivalet.com/ then you should take this opportunity to do so. The main reason you should do this is that it’s free and it gives you a wealth of knowledge as to how the bots see your site! Give it a whirl, you will be amazed at what you may find.

It is definitely worth it to take the time to clean up your site to get that green passing result! C’mon you know you want it!

O.K., so now after all of this you may be wondering, is this sight passing? You betcha!! Don’t believe me? Check for yourself! Click Here

You can even check the internal pages, although you will find an ARIA validation error. It is not much too worry about and you can read more about that here ARIA and CSS validation errors

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1 Comment
Posted on February 18, 2010

Nice validation tool. I usually just go to the W3C site but this is a really in depth report. Plus it’s just kind of cool with all the live pie charts and graphs. I mainly validate just out pride and curiosity though. Hate to say it but validation really doesn’t matter that much. It’s nice to do, and future proofs you a bit, but it doesn’t make your site “better” the way that really matters. I wrote about it here: http://www.claytowne.com/beats-digging-ditches/website-validating-10-important-things-validation-wont-tell-you/

Thanks

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