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thatguy
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Stupid Question - 6/27/2005 9:49:20
Is there any reason to think that pages that meet the W3 standards would rate any higher in a search engine than if that same page did not have it?
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dpf
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RE: Stupid Question - 6/27/2005 10:03:49
perhaps - the standards compliant page should be easy for the se to "read" and if the non compliant page is "way off" - that might make it harder to read - assuming the content is =
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RE: Stupid Question - 6/27/2005 10:27:58
Other than syntax that a bot might not be able to follow, no. Even then it will only help the bot spider, it will not influence ranking.
It's just a thing that a lot of people will strive for so they know their site will render the same in most browsers. For me it is piece of mind.
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RE: Stupid Question - 6/27/2005 16:42:13
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Would it take off like Firefox only if the main focus of searchers was to find compliant sites - and most could care less; why should they?
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RE: Stupid Question - 6/27/2005 17:17:51
Firefox was created, I believe, as a browser that would support standards and render sites optimized for compliant code. However, a Search engine succeeds by giving people the results they seek - pages with content that match their search - and surfers want that content ranked by relevance - not by the standards of the code which most could care less about.
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RE: Stupid Question - 6/27/2005 17:45:55
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Try telling me that Tourism Australia wouldn't want to know why and why, as a result their income started to drop? Wouldn't they then tell their web designer to comply with these things and if they couldn't wouldn't they go to a designer who could? yes - that is indeed true - however, my point is that long before it has an impact upon Tourism Australia, I (the surfer) am going to say "why am I using this nitwit search engine that brings results based upon some coding standard that I dont undersstand and brings me obscure sites? I am seking content - give me msn search - it doesnt care about standards and neither does my IE browser!!!"
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