W3C waste of time

[galteeman]

Hi guys
I read that passing the W3C validator test would improve my position so i did this for my index page and even put up the little logo they gave me on the page to show google how good a boy i am.
I did this a month ago but it has made no difference at all to my listing.

case closed?

 

[Forbairt]

I'm not sure exactly what you were expecting ? but Valid code is Valid code.


Have you made proper use of h tags ? strong ? and so on ?

<title>, Meta keywords / descriptions ?

Adding the Validation button doesn't really do anything for a site it just makes it look really crappy when you find that adding that & to the site caused validation to break yet you're claiming its valid all the same.

In terms of going forward ... congrats on getting your site valid.

 

[tomed]

Making sure your websites code is valid won't help you get a better ranking on the search engines.

You need to do a lot more than that. Forbarit's suggestions are a good place to start!

 

[galteeman]

I have found that the title is the most important thing that influences whats happening.
Not so sure on the description.
I read everywhere that meta keywords are a waste of time as google ignores them.
I try and get the title to match the description and also h1 and also the internal anchor links to the page in question.

 

[MickyWall]

Are you using the correct HTML elements for the structure of your site.
Do you use header elements, paragraphs and so on correctly.

 

[galteeman]

I think so, if by that you mean that a h tag will have a key phrase and the following paragraph is about that topic.

thanks for the replies guys btw