seo vs wc3 validation service

[surf_boy]

Hi

I am building a site for a local Guest House.

I amusing the key words b&b and bed & breakfast and I have words as the main content on the page.

When I submit the page to “w3c Markup Validation Service” it has told me to change the words to b&b, bed & breakfast. This now has been done the page passes the validation.

So when I go to optimize the page, so I can submit it to the search engines. The software is not recognizing the words b&b bed & breakfast despite those two words being in the description and keyword tags.

Any suggestions?

[Farix]

What software is giving you the problems?

[StupidScript]

What the validator is having a problem with is "b&b".

It expects an ampersand (&) to begin an entity reference when it is followed immediately by a character. If you spread it out to "b & b", there's no problem.

Incidentally, I believe the SEs do not use ampersands in the search query.

Google says:

"&" is a very common word and was not included in your search.

Overture says:

Keywords=bed+%26+breakfast

Overture's keyword suggestion tool indicates no searches for "bed & breakfast", but around 30,000 for "bed and breakfast" during the past month.

I suggest you make your keywords "bed,breakfast,b b,bed breakfast, b and b,bed and breakfast,b & b,bed & breakfast", and use the entity reference in your content (&).

It'll validate and reflect the text SEs will look for.

[edited by: tedster at 1:15 am (utc) on Oct. 1, 2004]
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[surf_boy]

Thank's StupidScript for the information, I will give it a go.

Farix, the software is Dynamic Submission v7 I hope that helps!

Regards