HTML code errors - validation errors and error effects on SERPS or page indexing. How much efforts should a publisher make to clean up his HTML errors ?

HTML / XHTML code errors - should we clean up our code to validate our HTML code or should we ease our life and keep all our errors ? People love easy life, hence web publishers too love to have an easy life and be careless about errors in HTML code. Being careless in HTML code is a direct and proportional reflection of how much you care about your own mistakes in human behavior. A person who cares little or nothing at all about his ego and his ego's impact or pain caused TO others most likely also cares nothing about errors on his web pages published. Such carelessness is nothing else but stinginess to make real efforts to produce a perfect product or service!

Categories of HTML code errors - simplified for easy understanding

There are different errors which have a different impact on a web site's content and indexing results. Some HTML code errors may be considered fatal, others may have lesser impact. We have simplified:

• errors early or top of page that kill bots
• errors later in a page that kill bots after this point of the page or that make bots struggle and produce errors in parsing page-content
• errors that in SOME weird combinations with other errors may cause bots to struggle and produce errors in parsing page content
• errors that have no indexing/parsing impact on bots but may "only" influence proper/clean display in certain browsers
• errors that impact only certain browsers but may be compensated by browser's capability to compensate for YOUR errors

Match your own web publishing efforts to the efforts made by the search engine industry

Google invests hundreds of Millions of $ each year to improve the community service of web indexing each and every year. Google invests substantial amounts for new, faster hardware/servers, better googlebot code, faster googlebots, more googlebot visits on your / all pages per months, better presentation of all global www icontent, better filtering of duplicate content / stolen content, etc.

Google SERVES free of charge to the end user a global community to make published material available in a structured method to allow a searcher to find HIS solution, HIS answer to his problem.

Hence if Google invests into improving your site-indexing, if Google invests in making YOU the site owner and web publisher more successful, to make your site's finding easier and improved - then you as a site owner and web publisher also should invest at least at the very least several thousand US $ each and every year to improve your web publishing, your coding, your content presentation, your hardware, your server speed, etc!!

Learn your trade before you go online

If a site owners has no technical knowledge, no knowledge of HTML code, no knowledge of clean validated webdesign - then he exceeds his limits and things sooner or later get out of control. Things that ran out of control in recent months are such mega industries like the financial markets in USA - Billion or Trillion $ companies that are at the edge of bankruptcy and need financial support from public/government funds such as happened these past days and weeks on US financial markets with AIG and other mega-companies before.

Stay withhin your limits, within your knowledge and skills. Do what YOU can do - never depend on others or you'll get fooled and screwed by those "others" best friends of yours who may dump or worst betray or cheat on you sooner or later.

Grow in small but strong steps. Learn step after step and realize when your own business has reached the healthy limits of what still can be fully controlled by yourself directly.

A web site can grow out of control, specially those who love easy publishing using member sites, upload sites, social sites, where almost all publishing is done by members. Sooner or alter you may and most likely will become a target site for hackers. Soon later you may start to feel the consequences of legal action against a site owner hosting or facilitating hackers ....

Know what you do and stay within your limits. If your limits appear too tight to you, if your knowledge is too small, your skills too weak compared to your plans, projects or wishes you have or want to accomplish - then learn more, practice more until your knowledge and skill level matches your projects.

Love and Bliss

hans