The importance of Validating

Many often ask Why?, and spidering issues have been named...

[killroy]

For all those who wonder if validating was worth it. I've jsut been asked for some help by a merchant as to why only their homepage ever got indexed by google.

It took me all of 10 seconds to see that there was no </head> closing head tag. Therefore the entire document was part of the header. The browsers rendered it just fine, but google saw nothing.

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[g1smd]

Yep. There are lots of site like that. Fix that error, then revalidate the page again, and validate every single page of the site.

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Try a Google search for meta name="content" or something like that to see all the sites that have a </title> tag that is missing or is misformed like title> or </titl and hence their whole document appears to be in the title tag.