Many people create their own websites today with one of the many freely available website builder software packages such as Yahoo sitebuilder, iweb, BlueVoda, CoffeeCup, MS Frontpage, Joomla, WordPress etc. & other WYSIWYG, drag & drop software.
They are simple to use & the resulting website page looks great, but quite often they also leave small errors in the HTML code of your website. One missing forward slash “/” or bracket ” ) ” can render the whole page unreadable to a search engine spider.
In a previous blog about search engine spiders we explained how they don’t like incorrectly written code in the page, causing the spider to give up & skip large chunks of your website.
But how can you tell if your website has any errors in it’s code? The best place to start is at the World Wide Web Consortium HTML validation page. Just type your website address into the address bar on the page & it will list the results below.
Having some errors in your code does not spell the end of your website on the internet. Most modern upto date browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari etc. have the computing power to understand what the website code is trying to display & will display it correctly.
But in order for your website to be displayed by a potential client, they need to find it first in the search engine listings. If your site is showing errors, the search engine spiders can’t crawl it & your website won’t be indexed as well as it should. Given the amount of data search engines crawl daily, it’s not surprising they are getting more picky over which sites they crawl.
If you have errors on your website, then why not have a free website analysis at SEO France.
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