November 23, 2005

clean code rises to the top

Filed under: seo tips, insider seo tips — admin @ 8:30 pm

It’s looking like some of the more advanced search engines, such as MSN, are giving greater preference to sites with “clean” back-end Web code. If you are not a Web developer this might not make a lot of sense but HTML and other scripting/markup languages can be written a bunch of different ways to give the same visual appearance on the viewable page itself. Unfortunately, many WYSIWYG editors (what you see is what you get) add a bunch of unnecessary and often messy code to the back-end of your Web pages. Aside from often placing the important META tags in a less than optimal place, these editors sometimes add extra tags and do not follow the W3C (Worldwide Web Consortium) standards, such as HTML formatting guidelines.

1 Comment »

  1. Yah, this is one of the most overlooked sides of web development in general. It seems nowadays buying a WYSIWYG design prog, and throwing a couple of images together is the way to make websites.

    Among all the editors I’ve seen, notepad, or any similar editor with syntax hilighting has remained the best for pure HTML in my opinion.

    Max

    Comment by Max — November 23, 2005 @ 9:05 pm

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