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_gail
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Validation, Doctype, PageRank - 9/27/2003 15:12:40
I'm not quite sure I can fully articulate what I'm asking, but let me try.
What is the relationship between validation and doctype to page rank? Or is there any?
I read somewhere that for sites to get ranked well they should validate. Some photography sites I visited lately have the highest page ranking I've ever seen. I checked them in a validator and, lo and behold, most of them didn't have a "document type declaration."
I'm assuming you can have perfect code without a doc type declaration but is the doctype something a search engine spider looks for and expects?
thanks, gail
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Reflect
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RE: Validation, Doctype, PageRank - 9/29/2003 8:36:35
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What is the relationship between validation and doctype to page rank?
Valid code makes the spiders life easier. If the spider runs into a block of code that it can not parse then it stops on that page.
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I'm assuming you can have perfect code without a doc type declaration but is the doctype something a search engine spider looks for and expects?
On one of my first sites I left out a DOC type declaration (we all learn ;)). Ironically it was ranked #1 for most every keyword on every page. I think, IMHO, that it is a rendering concern so the browser can recreate the page correctly.
Brian
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