andreasfriedrich - 9:11 am on Dec 30, 2002 (gmt 0)

Since reformatting all of my clients code and building new sites using my method of formatting, I've seen an overall increase in the ability to secure and obtain pageoneresults.

That would really be surprising. I do understand why SEs might favour valid HTML over invalid HTML. But I cannot think of any reason why they would prefer one code formatting style over another since the HTML spec clearly states that whitespace does not matter.

Could you explain in more details how you measured that increase?

Andreas