I have a dynamic php website which index only has around 800 errors according to the w3 validator online.I have tried checking major websites like ebay, stackoverflow and others also, all with around 400 errors.So my first thought is, what good is that validator when it always displays errors?Secondly, will the errors affect my SERP ranking? ie, will me fixing these errors as good as I can increase my Google search position?Thanks
Is the W3 standard a major factor when google decides SERP position?
seo;google;html;search
Does validating boost my results? No.what good is that validator when it always displays errors? It does not always display errors. It displays errors where there are errors. Which leads to what your question should have been, that is:Does writing horrible, invalid HTML do me harm?And... Yes. It does you harm because you'll have lots of browser incompatibilities; because nobody that ever hired me for front-end would hire you; because it's likely to break DOM-related processing; because your accessibility will suck and will cut off a good 2% of the human population; because rankings aren't handicapped by lack of validity per se, but are surely helped by a meaningful, orderly code.Not over yet: it's not only bad for you, it's bad for all of us and we should blame you. Because nice web services you use daily rely on standards, and if their development is slow and they can't reach their potentials it's because of you, sloppy markupper.Every day, when you wake up and realise the web is not the perfectly architectured network of semantic relationships that it should be already, you will have give us all your apologies.Also happy holidays.