Correct/clean HTML and Google

[jordan123]

Hi guys,

Just a quick question. I am new in SEO and I was wondering if pages with HTML code errors (for example missing tags and so on) can damage your pages being properly indexed by Google.
How is correct HTML code important for Google?

Regards,

Ivan Voroshilov

[Mohamed_E]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, jordan 123!

GoogleGuy himself posted that "... we don't penalize for HTML errors ...", see msg #10 in [webmasterworld.com...]

What this really means is that, if your browser can show what you intended, Google will find the content. Of course, if you put a comment tag high up and forget to close it you may lose the rest of your page, but that will show up on your browser.

That said, I believe in validation. Not for the sake of Google, but for a host of other reasons. But such a discussion belongs on the HTML forum, not here :)

[ukgimp]

Even if G dont penalise you are penalising yourself as you may be making your page look, at best like a bag of spanners and in the worst case not render at all. HTML errors should not be allowed :)

Get correct and get validated also.

[john316]

If they penalized for HTML errors, the index would be about 1/1000th of its current size.