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	<title>Comments on: Bad Nested Code Could Hurt Your SE Rankings</title>
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		<title>By: goldcoinsgain</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-934405</link>
		<dc:creator>goldcoinsgain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: sadiamansoor</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-934033</link>
		<dc:creator>sadiamansoor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nice informative article , specially very helpful for beginner. keep it up!!

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nice informative article , specially very helpful for beginner. keep it up!!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tucknoloji.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tucknoloji.com</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: topfan</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933817</link>
		<dc:creator>topfan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi

I believe there are more than that so nesting could only hurt your SEO where I would say it would hurt your site http://www.matchmate.ca</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi</p>
<p>I believe there are more than that so nesting could only hurt your SEO where I would say it would hurt your site <a href="http://www.matchmate.ca" rel="nofollow">http://www.matchmate.ca</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: al_mar</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933494</link>
		<dc:creator>al_mar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for information, Niche post, I Like This.<br />
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		<title>By: Stevie D</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933238</link>
		<dc:creator>Stevie D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@AK:
&lt;blockquote&gt;Just used the Lynx browser and it’s horrible. Mihaela if a client asks me to make the site complaint with this browser, how do i check if it’s compliant? Do I just make sure the links are viewable?&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Lynx will distinguish between text, headings and strong/emphasised text. It will show bulleted and numbered lists. It will show alt/fallback text for images and other rich media. It will allow you to see how your site functions without styles or scripts.

No, your website won&#039;t be a thing of beauty in Lynx, that isn&#039;t what Lynx is about. But if you can figure out what the page is about, by the headings and other marked text, if you can read the pages and navigate around the site (while pretending to be a visitor to the site who doesn&#039;t know all this to start with) then you&#039;re probably OK. If you can&#039;t do that, the chances are that search engines and people using assistive technology can&#039;t either.
&lt;blockquote&gt;That’s it, right? Also, feel like this kind of information should have stayed in the closet and not out in the open.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
That&#039;s kind of tricky given that lots of us have known this for years ;-)
When there is good information, it&#039;s best to share it. Otherwise we&#039;ll live in a world where it is forever IE6...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@AK:</p>
<blockquote><p>Just used the Lynx browser and it’s horrible. Mihaela if a client asks me to make the site complaint with this browser, how do i check if it’s compliant? Do I just make sure the links are viewable?</p></blockquote>
<p>Lynx will distinguish between text, headings and strong/emphasised text. It will show bulleted and numbered lists. It will show alt/fallback text for images and other rich media. It will allow you to see how your site functions without styles or scripts.</p>
<p>No, your website won&#8217;t be a thing of beauty in Lynx, that isn&#8217;t what Lynx is about. But if you can figure out what the page is about, by the headings and other marked text, if you can read the pages and navigate around the site (while pretending to be a visitor to the site who doesn&#8217;t know all this to start with) then you&#8217;re probably OK. If you can&#8217;t do that, the chances are that search engines and people using assistive technology can&#8217;t either.</p>
<blockquote><p>That’s it, right? Also, feel like this kind of information should have stayed in the closet and not out in the open.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s kind of tricky given that lots of us have known this for years ;-)<br />
When there is good information, it&#8217;s best to share it. Otherwise we&#8217;ll live in a world where it is forever IE6&#8230;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Stevie D</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933234</link>
		<dc:creator>Stevie D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@chris:
&lt;blockquote&gt;From my understanding google still ignores all html and does not care at all if it’s proper nested or valid. Did they change this i cannot see it in the article?&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Google isn&#039;t bothered about valid code. What Google is bothered about is making sense of your page content. And to do that, Google does read the HTML - it does look at headings, tabular relationships, strong and emphasised text, acronyms and abbreviations - and it does eventually get bored and stop reading a page if it goes on too long. If you use semantically valid code, you&#039;re going to make it easier for Google to accurately figure out what your page is about; if you use invalid or semantically inappropriate code, Google is less likely to interpret your page correctly. If you use lean and mean code, Google will get to the end of the page without breaking a sweat. If you fill your page - especially the beginning - with loads of scripts and widgets and styling, masses of presentational code, intricately nested tables and other such cruft, you&#039;re increasing the risk that Google struggles, huffing and puffing, through all this rubbish only to run out of steam and give up before getting to the meat of the page, which won&#039;t then be indexed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@chris:</p>
<blockquote><p>From my understanding google still ignores all html and does not care at all if it’s proper nested or valid. Did they change this i cannot see it in the article?</p></blockquote>
<p>Google isn&#8217;t bothered about valid code. What Google is bothered about is making sense of your page content. And to do that, Google does read the HTML &#8211; it does look at headings, tabular relationships, strong and emphasised text, acronyms and abbreviations &#8211; and it does eventually get bored and stop reading a page if it goes on too long. If you use semantically valid code, you&#8217;re going to make it easier for Google to accurately figure out what your page is about; if you use invalid or semantically inappropriate code, Google is less likely to interpret your page correctly. If you use lean and mean code, Google will get to the end of the page without breaking a sweat. If you fill your page &#8211; especially the beginning &#8211; with loads of scripts and widgets and styling, masses of presentational code, intricately nested tables and other such cruft, you&#8217;re increasing the risk that Google struggles, huffing and puffing, through all this rubbish only to run out of steam and give up before getting to the meat of the page, which won&#8217;t then be indexed.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Sue</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933100</link>
		<dc:creator>Sue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for adding more knowledge to my ever-expanding mental reference. The article&#039;s fluidity needs improvement though.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for adding more knowledge to my ever-expanding mental reference. The article&#8217;s fluidity needs improvement though.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Mihaela Lica</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933096</link>
		<dc:creator>Mihaela Lica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Ak, I think you will find a few answers here http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/abdesign3.html - as for the information staying in the closet, I have to disagree. Anything we can do to make a site better should be open. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Ak, I think you will find a few answers here <a href="http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/abdesign3.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/abdesign3.html</a> &#8211; as for the information staying in the closet, I have to disagree. Anything we can do to make a site better should be open. :)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: AK</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933092</link>
		<dc:creator>AK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just used the Lynx browser and it&#039;s horrible. Mihaela if a client asks me to make the site complaint with this browser, how do i check if it&#039;s compliant? Do I just make sure the links are viewable? 

That&#039;s it, right? Also, feel like this kind of information should have stayed in the closet and not out in the open.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just used the Lynx browser and it&#8217;s horrible. Mihaela if a client asks me to make the site complaint with this browser, how do i check if it&#8217;s compliant? Do I just make sure the links are viewable? </p>
<p>That&#8217;s it, right? Also, feel like this kind of information should have stayed in the closet and not out in the open.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Mihaela Lica</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933088</link>
		<dc:creator>Mihaela Lica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Chris - Google never ignored html - please follow the links in the article that lead to Google&#039;s tech. guidelines about this, and you will understand better.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Chris &#8211; Google never ignored html &#8211; please follow the links in the article that lead to Google&#8217;s tech. guidelines about this, and you will understand better.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933059</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From my understanding google still ignores all html and does not care at all if it&#039;s proper nested or valid. Did they change this i cannot see it in the article?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From my understanding google still ignores all html and does not care at all if it&#8217;s proper nested or valid. Did they change this i cannot see it in the article?</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: tinjaw</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933048</link>
		<dc:creator>tinjaw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting point I hadn&#039;t really thought of yet as I am only just now worrying about search ranking. I think I need to audit my code.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting point I hadn&#8217;t really thought of yet as I am only just now worrying about search ranking. I think I need to audit my code.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: biswa</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933039</link>
		<dc:creator>biswa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To rank a webpage google use 200+ algorithm .This is one of them ,If your site is not well formatted then not an issue , if other factor is strong. This does not means that if you make your site well formatted then google will rank you well. This is only one of them. I have  lot’s of example. But I personally recommended to use well formatted code, this helps in both search engine crawl + multi browser display. When create a page use a validation tool if this tool gives you a green signal, then rock .
http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_uri</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To rank a webpage google use 200+ algorithm .This is one of them ,If your site is not well formatted then not an issue , if other factor is strong. This does not means that if you make your site well formatted then google will rank you well. This is only one of them. I have  lot’s of example. But I personally recommended to use well formatted code, this helps in both search engine crawl + multi browser display. When create a page use a validation tool if this tool gives you a green signal, then rock .<br />
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_uri" rel="nofollow">http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_uri</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: jamieappleseed</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933034</link>
		<dc:creator>jamieappleseed</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is one of the reasons to code your website from scratch (granted you have the skills of course) - to get super clean code which SE spiders can just slurp up like chicken soup.

Re: WSGWD-plugin, you&#039;ll want to put it at the end of your posts anyways. It&#039;s not just better for search, it also makes the most sense, since someone who is new to your blog wouldn&#039;t just subscribe to your feed before having read one (or more) of your articles.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is one of the reasons to code your website from scratch (granted you have the skills of course) &#8211; to get super clean code which SE spiders can just slurp up like chicken soup.</p>
<p>Re: WSGWD-plugin, you&#8217;ll want to put it at the end of your posts anyways. It&#8217;s not just better for search, it also makes the most sense, since someone who is new to your blog wouldn&#8217;t just subscribe to your feed before having read one (or more) of your articles.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: tedgoas</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/01/coding-se-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-933032</link>
		<dc:creator>tedgoas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Amen!&lt;/strong&gt; It&#039;s always distressing to see Wordpress themes that boast all these neat features to non-developer types. I&#039;ve been bitten by this a few times now and always wonder what&#039;s going on under the hood of themes loaded with plugins and widgets.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Amen!</strong> It&#8217;s always distressing to see Wordpress themes that boast all these neat features to non-developer types. I&#8217;ve been bitten by this a few times now and always wonder what&#8217;s going on under the hood of themes loaded with plugins and widgets.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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