Category Archives: Coding

Articles about the effect that coding practices can have on SEO

Web site code optimisation

March 15, 2008 – 4:13 pm

Does valid code matter? You often see that question on SEO forums, and the wide diversity of replies shows how much confusion there is on this. It usually degenerates pretty quickly into an argument between those who fervently believe valid code helps search rankings and those who don’t. This misses the point completely. My opinion, [...]

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Get your DOCTYPE right

March 19, 2007 – 8:12 pm

I look at dozens of sites every week and one of the first things I do is check the code to see how they’ve been constructed and, amongst other things, whether the code is valid or not. What I see time and again is designers who don’t understand DOCTYPES and cause themselves and their clients [...]

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The 5 most mis-handled html tags

December 30, 2006 – 7:14 pm

Since I don’t currently have a blog on the web design site I thought I’d drop this one in here. After all, trying to do SEO on top of poor foundations is a thankless task. It was inspired by a blog item which I “think” I saw on SEOmoz entitled The 5 most underused HTML [...]

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