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Web site code optimisation

bill — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:13:39 +0000

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, confirmed by [...]

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Get your DOCTYPE right

bill — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:12:43 +0000

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

bill — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:14:56 +0000

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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