subject: Mandatory Piece Of Software - CSE HTML Validator [print this page] As a certified SE Marketing Specialist, I wrote several articles on increasing Search Engine targeted traffic. I do not mention, discuss, or recommend programs in my writings. There is a reason: I do not trust any of them. However, there is an exception to my rule.
My experience has shown me that increasing Search Engine targeted traffic and a website top rankings is influenced on how well we satisfyspiders. ProperHTML syntax ~and free from errors~is one of those ways. In addition, our visitors' browsers are likely to display our web sites the way we intend.
There is a company out there that has quietly developed ~through a number of years~ what today is prime-time HTML validation tool.I categorize it as Mandatory To Own. At the beginning, I was reluctant to get into an HTML validation tool that was progressively becomingmore and more complex. "This is not for me" I said to myself. In fairness to a honest and trustworthy developer, I downloadedthis HTML validation tool.
Boy...I was wrong ! - The name of this investment in accurate knowledge~and great many sleepless nights, I presume~is CSE HTML Validator.
If you choose todownload the free trial, please,do NOT get intimidated after the straightforward installation. Leave all the defaults, andbring up your .indexpage into the Editor; orotherpage that you prefer. You arelikely to be horrified by the number of errors found by this HTML validation tool. Are they important to correct? YES ! - All of them ! - No excuses, no if's, no but's.
The guys behind Google, Yahoo~and all major Search Engines~ send out in the realms of cyberspace spiders programmed to frown upon a fat web page blotted with HTML code and lots of errors. They want their spiders to smile at web pages which are lean,lightweight, and error-free as opposed to fat and overloaded witherroneous HTML code. It is becausetheir spiders must deal with all of it.
A serious HTML validation tool likeCSE HTML Validator excels at delivering what the Internet ison its wayto become: Lean& No Errors.
Confronted with what this HTML validation tool exposed me to, I decided to not get into the monumental task of fixing up errors.I would be investing time and efforts in a language already obsolete. Investing in the future was more sensible, and wiser. With thehelp of this HTML validation tool ~and using Divisions and CSS~ one web page at a time was translated into XHTML or Extended HTML.My web site looks EXACTLY the way it looked with old HTML. The huge difference is that EACH of my web pages are significantly smaller, andsyntax error-free.I couldn't have done it without CSE HTML Validator.
This is the bottom line.
I know for a fact that spiders eat my web pages like candy. It is because they are well optimized,error-free, and the HTML code is very small. Altogether, my web pagesfacilitate their job; and they make a note of it. It all started when I gave this CSE HTML Validation tool a try. If increasing Search Engine targeted traffic and gaining top rankings for your website are both in your agenda, I explain in my articles how you do it; but before you learn the how-to, be wise and do yourself a favor with a program mandatory to own.
