AntOnaf.com is officially validated by W3C.org, its been a long time coming.  Well, really 2 weeks, because 2 weeks ago I looked at my site code and figured I should validate it.  I am not a programmer, web designer, or anything of the sort so getting my website validated is a milestone for me, even if its simple HTML.

Anyway, I was doing my quarterly stroll of reading through the major search engines Webmaster Guidelines and it got me to thinking, that maybe I should get my code validated.  Website validation can help make sure your code is up to date and proper syntax is used.  You should have seen my website code BEFORE view, I had double head tags and all type of errors.  I had over 100 errors and I simply took my time and fixed each error one by one.  I must admit I got lucky because I fixed one error which cleared up about 75 errors, which made my road to recovery much easier.

Okay, so how can a validated web design help with SEO efforts — that’s easy … clean code usually mean better crawling and is normally more appealing to search engine bots.  I don’t have to be a web designer to know that clean code is a good thing, however you spin it.  If you can accomplish validating your code then I would suggest you do so, what will it hurt??

Now I have to go get the rest of the website web pages validated, as I am sure it does very little for search engine ranking and crawlability by having just the homepage optimized or validated!  Okay, I am going now so I can validate the rest of the site…see you in 2 years!  :-)

Go validate your pages:  http://validator.w3.org/

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