Using Yahoo Sitebuilder With Good Google Results?

[snickles121]

This year I made a 400 page site with Yahoo Sitebuilder. I know this was probably a mistake and should have just wrote it up in Eversoft, but I liked the template I saw with them and the ease of use for what I needed to do at the time.

I had 50 errors per page when I validated the site, I used HTML Tidy to clean them up quite a bit, but still not perfect.

I also had to open each page and add alt tags to the navbar because sitebuilder does not support this in the navbar. I also had to manually edit each page to link to the homepage as .com and not index.html.

My question is, has anyone used this program before and obtained good search results with Google and if you have what changes did you make to the coding that Yahoo Sitebuilder screwed up?

[tedster]

Yahoo Sitebuilder definitely has it's limitations. Sort of like a website with training wheels. I have had people owners of Sitebuilder sites approach me with all kinds of indexing problems, and sometimes the tools are just not there to resolve them.

That said, there definitely are competitive business hosted this way. They're much more dependent on backlinks - and Google's willingness to accommodate and work around the platform's shortcomings.

Don't worry about reparing every html validation error - Google certainly doesn't. Other than not placing real barriers to indexing in the code (missing end tags, quoted strings that don't close, etc), you can move on to other areas.