Comments on: Standards In Web Design

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:46:42 +0000

Well I’m not so arrogant to say I’m 100% correct, so I’ll definitely take a look

Thanks for the comment. Yours is very well done as well.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:39:27 +0000

Good points Josh!

There are a few “case-studies” that I’ll post about regarding better SERPs on sites that have been “accessified” - bringing them onto semantically correct, valid markup.

They are from a friend of mine at http://forums.seoworkers.com, so give me a minute to look them up

BTW Josh, nice site you have!

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:55:16 +0000

I gotcha I’m a marketer and obviously not a designer. I know of W3C standards, but these days the code and design of a Website doesn’t affect your SE rankings in the least bit.

The only exception is Java, which doesn’t hurt you unless you have important structural links within, as Java isn’t crawled by SE’s.

The major SE’s want good content and now have the ability to ignore most aspects of the coding and css that have nothing to do with the information on that page when serving SERPS.

By: Martin Espericueta

Martin Espericueta — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:50:23 +0000

Yes Josh, I agree that FF and IE (among others as well like Opera) display pages differently. However - that is their fault, and has nothing to do with following the standards set by the W3C.

There ARE standards in web design (and a certain standard for SEO as well) - it’s just that many browser makers choose to NOT follow them.

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:26:22 +0000

It’s always good to have your own set of standards, but when it comes to Web Design and SE’s there really are none.

Just look at IE and FF. both display many pages differently. The major SE players are looking to provide the most relevant page to the search term not the prettiest