Friday, July 6, 2007

Is Your Site Search Engine Friendly?

HTML code for a website must be coded correctly and error free in order for it to be crawled completely. The code of your web pages may be HTML 1.0 Transitional or XHTML 1.0 Transitional, but either way it is better that the code be flawless. The W3C or World Wide Web Consortium sets the standards for HTML code syntax and ensures quality across the web. When you see the XHTML 1.0 symbol on a website, that usually means that the code is error free. To find out if your site has any errors that are preventing it from being indexed by search engines and crawled properly I recommend visiting http://validator.w3.org/ and typing in your URL. You can also upload the file you are trying to scan and hit "check" in order to scan for errors before uploading the file to your site. Several companies offer a service that includes scanning, examining and cleaning out the errors on your website. Contact Simple Tiger for a Free Evaluation and estimate, I will happily scan your site for you.

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