New Website

[trent101]

Hey,

Have just designed my first web page ->

http://www.officepoker.com.au

Now I have been told that to have a valid html page (checked by a html validate eg. w3.org) is better for seo, as its cleaner code etc...

But what happends if my page is written in asp.net, and the only errors i get are reffering to the vb script at the top of the page? Is this bad? Or is this unavoidable?

Cheers.

 

[feherke]

Hi

If you omit the "my first web page" part, we surely guess it.
[ol]
[li]SEO questions are better answered in forum828 ( Search Engine Optimization discussion ).[/li]
[li]Nobody cares if the page is generated by asp.net or anything else, the user agent will get HTML or XHTML.[/li]
[li]The w3.org validator find 17 errors, not only one.[/li]
[li]There is no VB script on that page, only JavaScript.[/li]
[li]HTML validators does not check for script errors, only for HTML errors.[/li]
[/ol]
To answer your question, yes, is good for SEO too, to have standard compliant site. Although the bots usually can manage highly messed pages too.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[trent101]

Thanks for the reply.

I have too now found the 17 errors from the validator, however for the life of me i cant figure out why it doesnt like my meta tags.....

They are within the head tags and i cant see any problem with them, does anyone have any ideas as to what it doesnt like about them?

cheers.

 

[feherke]

Hi

i cant figure out why it doesnt like my meta tags.....

Try to not put a slash ( / ) at the end of the tag before the closing greater-then ( > ) sign. That is XHTML while your page is HTML.

Another thing related to the [tt]meta[/tt] tags, as mentiond in the validation result page.
Your server send this in the HTTP header :

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

While in the document you wrote this :

 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/