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One of the web site I work with is run dynamically with the most horriblely coded pages, with some pages without <HTML> or weird orders like:
<STYLE></STYLE>
<SCRIPT></SCRIPT>
<HTML><BODY><BODY><HEAD>
</HEAD></BODY><HTML>
Besides the obvious point that its good to keep content easily crawlable and on the top half of page, is there any problems with really bad HTML coding?
I know Google et al dont penalize for poor coding, but would bad coding hinder its ability to crawl through a site and find contents and follow links?
Just wondering.
And unfortunately, getting the IT guys at the web site to fix the code, isnt much of an option.
THANKS!
Google doesnt seam to have much of a problem with bad code just now. I think Google would want this to stay that way. If they where to design a bot that could not crawn nasty code they would greatly reduce the size of their index :)
I think Google want to crawl as much content as possible. Generaly If it is cross browser compatable then it should have no problems being indexed.
Mack.
Please see these threads for past discussions on this subject.
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Google is fairly good at crawling bad html, and there are a gazillion sites that rank well with html errors. However it is a good idea to have clean, valid html for reasons discussed in the above two threads.
