Clean Code and Google – SEO Bytes
I have an online pal who is pretty disciplined when it comes to making sure her code is up to par.
Me … I slap and run. I figure as long as the page renders well in various versions of IE and Firefox – and the code is not too heavy and funky – I’m good to go. Besides, have you ever tried to validate a page with affiliate links on it? {mucho-time-waster}
Here’s an interesting tidbit I found over at SEOmoz Blog:
Matt Cutts:
We can’t throw out 40% of the web on the principle that sites should validate; we have to take the web as it is and try to make it useful to searchers, so Google’s index parsing is pretty forgiving.
Exactly.
mark:
November 20th, 2005 at 8:10 am
The Google Information for Webmasters says “Check for broken links and correct HTML.”
My preference is to validate
Terry:
November 20th, 2005 at 9:53 am
Point taken Mark
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But I’m still not spending a lifetime trying to get affiliate links to validate
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mark:
November 20th, 2005 at 10:27 am
Your point was good as well and one I hadn’t considered, no need to get compulsive about validation. The world still spins.
Terry:
November 20th, 2005 at 10:48 am
I think that sums it up for me Mark. I do make *some* effort to get clean code, but if things get crazy – I just can’t justify the time to make everything perfect.
This was a good topic though. I’m bending a bit. Maybe I should allow myself an 1/2 hr – 1 hour to try to validate, rather than the current 5 minutes I give myself
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mark:
November 20th, 2005 at 1:30 pm
After awhile the validation started getting easier for me, now it’s a breeze.
It’s everything that comes after having a site that validates that is the question mark for me
Hence a subscription to this site (via buildingmyempire)
Empress:
November 21st, 2005 at 10:31 am
I went and checked my gift basket site… to validate it… and OMG it looked terrible. Upon further inspection – it was mostly my affiliate links that didn’t do it for me…. and I don’t know if it’s worth my time to try to validate them. I’m pondering….
Terry:
November 21st, 2005 at 3:36 pm
Good luck if you do Empress!!!
Hope to see you soon
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