About the W3C Markup Validation Service

Validation is a process of checking your web documents against a formal Standard, such as those published by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). It serves a similar purpose to spell checking and proofreading for grammar and syntax, however it is much more precise and reliable.

When there are errors in a web page, browsers typically try to compensate in different ways. Hence some browsers may ignore the broken elements while others make assumptions about what the web designer was trying to achieve. The problem is that when search engines obtain your page and try to parse them for keywords, they will also have to make certain decisions about what to do with the errors. Like browsers, different search engines will probably make different decisions about those errors in the page, resulting in certain parts of your web page (or perhaps even the entire page if your error is early in the page) not being indexed.

Validation is only one of many quality criteria for a Web page. In other words, a valid Web page is not necessarily a good web page, but an invalid Web page has little chance of being a good web page. It makes sense to take this extra step to assure that your web page validates error-free. That way, there is no dispute about which part of your page should be scanned for keywords.

Check your website pages now!

Use the FREE W3C tools below to determine if your web pages are error-free. If you find that your pages have errors and you are unsure how to fix them, contact us for assistance. The Webheads guarantee that its products, including templates, are 100% error free.

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