Are w3 Validations really that important for SEO?

charbel · Feb 20, 2015

Hey guys, i never really see any body discussing W3Validations, (coding errors you have within your website)

I'm wondering, my website has 22 Errors, and 15 warnings on the root page (the ranking page)

Will fixing these help the chances of increased rank?

Imburr · Feb 20, 2015

I believe you should take the errors and warning with a grain of salt. I have many clients with highly ranked websites, and some of them have errors and some of them don't. I think if your using a theme and it is pumping out thousands of errors, you should evaluate it. But for a low amount such as that I wouldn't sweat it. Now- if those errors are easy to fix, why not just fix them?

Also make sure your using the right W3 Validator.

KocerRoxy · Feb 20, 2015

Short answer no.

Long answer: it really depends on the errors because search engines use crawlers that behave alot like regular browsers and because of the errors on the page they might have trouble rendering the pages and this can cause the site to rank lower

SkyrocketSEO · Feb 20, 2015

This is just another hook that they want you to bite, so you can lose your time with unimportant things.

Hubba · Feb 20, 2015

No - I'm still seeing crappy old non-compliant designs ranking. Then again, I've never done an exhaustive split test.

tiyowan · Feb 20, 2015

Hubba is correct. Unless there are major errors, you'll see no effect
on rankings whatsoever. Additionally, it doesn't help that many of the
validators are themselves broken in their interpretation of the standards.

aussiejack · Feb 20, 2015

SkyrocketSEO said:
This is just another hook that they want you to bite, so you can lose your time with unimportant things.

So true. I had hundreds and thousands of coding errors on my site (Indian coder lol). I spend a nice sum to get them fixed. It did not help AT ALL in my rankings.

SEO Power · Feb 21, 2015

One of my websites has way more errors and warnings than the OP'a site, yet it ranks well. Those errors and warnings mean nothing to Google.

Aty · Feb 21, 2015

Definitely not. There are by far more top ranking sites with code errors than sites with no error. Take a look at Newegg for instance, 899 errors and 502 warnings, and still has top rankings.

charbel · Feb 22, 2015

Thanks guys I appreciate the feedback!

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