html validator help

bmcoll3278 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-28-2009, 12:12 AM

I have a question for you gurus

I ran my site through a html validator here
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

It found a lot of errors a few in the head section. I fixed those but most of them in the stuff my site pulls from rss feeds so I can not fix it. and google webmaster tools says there are no html issues with my site. So should I worry about it or just let it go ?

ishkey · #2 (**permalink**) 07-28-2009, 12:40 AM

Just ran it on my pc and you do have s**t load of errors.
Double entry

Quote:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN'>
<html>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN'>
<html>
<head>

Bad css property in the width use either 20% or 20px

Quote:

.box4960729 {
text-align: left;
width: 20%px;

Close your Metatags like this "space />

Quote:

<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 6 November 2007), see www.w3.org">

line 258 close </img> tag missing
line 265, 286 </input> tag missing
line 270 <br /> tag missing
line 286 </form> tag missing
377, 456 </p> , <br />

and a whole bunch of capitals like <H2> ,</H2> and <TD> and more ALWAYS USE lowercase in coding.
Try fixing those errors and will look at it again. It's not the feeds.

Dave

bmcoll3278 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-28-2009, 10:46 PM

Thanks the site is mostly php so I have to go through each file line by line to find the errors . The hard lesson is that in the future I will think about seo as I write instead of going back later. With the help of the nice guys on the forum I will get the site seo up to par I think it is a nice site and it gets good reviews but I wish I would have thought about seo sooner instead of later. Thanks for your help. If you have ideas of other free services I can add please let me know.

ishkey · #4 (**permalink**) 07-29-2009, 10:59 AM

your welcome
but i think you are confused, your pages are html.
w3 org validator is a Markup Validation Service
Checking the markup (HTML, XHTML, …) of Web documents.
You change Your DTD but not your coding.
You now have defined a DTD (Document Type Definition) Strict, but are not following the conventions for that type.

Quote:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPEhtmlPUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Maybe you should try: Transitional and leave out the

Quote:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Unless you have XML files on your server.

Quote:

<!DOCTYPEhtmlPUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Here are the naming conventions for Strict http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/dtd.html

Transitional http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/loosedtd.html
It will help in reducing the errors and fixing them will be easier.
You reference outside files some of which are php, but that is not where your problem is.

Yep it's a Great site.

You already have google-analytics good start.

try this- put this in the Google search box to see how Google views you:

Code:

info:www.bmcoll.com

then look at a popular site (replace your web name) compare, learn.

take alook here http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bmcoll.com while on Alexa type in a popular site to view and you will see the stats it shows. Since you are there, you might as well Edit your your own site info, other sites/search engines pickup information form Alexa.
both are good starting points for SEO

Manually submit your site to the 4-5 major search engines. It will take some time for them to index you, but it will happen. (do not use one of those we will submit to every engine on the planet - you will be considered a spammer) Have your friends ( who have different ips then yours) log into the search engines and search for your website "bmcoll" not with the .com and search for your different key words, when they find you, have them click on your links.

Create a sitmap for your website and list it on your pages, keep it up to date. http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Load all 4 maps it generates into your root directory of your web (html, xml, ror, text) Make sure the html one is the one that has the link on your pages. After you have your site map up on the server submit it, with a HTTP request, put this into Google it will ask Google to index your site ( make sure your site map is named sitemap.html)

Code:

www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bmcoll.com%2Fsitemap.html

See if you can get other sites to link to yours.

fix the <title> on the main page - to free "ringtones," not "ring tones"
and in your <metaname='keywords' type ring tones and then ringtones into google and see what happens.

Getting the site right and working SEO is what makes you a Webmaster...

Hope this helps.

bmcoll3278 · #5 (**permalink**) 07-29-2009, 06:36 PM

Ok I am making progress. What do you do when you have affiliate links with stuff that fails the Markup Validation Service ?

ishkey · #6 (**permalink**) 07-30-2009, 12:15 AM

You make sure your links to them are coded properly. You can inform them about their code and hope they change it or live with it.

bmcoll3278 · #7 (**permalink**) 07-30-2009, 06:18 AM

I am putting the links in a redirect in there own folder and then creating clean links to the folder. all of my links are updated via a admin section that I wrote and are stored on the sql server so I wrote a few small scripts that create or delete the folder and index.html file in it as well as adding or removing the link from the data base.

Now I am doing my updates so far half of the page has been recreated and it passes.
Thanks again for the help.

bmcoll3278 · #8 (**permalink**) 07-30-2009, 07:21 AM

ishkey Thanks again for the help. The main page is now 100% compliant . sort of.

If you check it now there are 15 to 20 errors but they are all in the yahoo news feed. if I remove that it passes. I would never have figured this out without you sending me the right way I owe you big.

ishkey · #9 (**permalink**) 07-31-2009, 12:34 AM

Did't even see that many.
An man does it load super fast.
You got the making of a site which should generate you some cash.

bmcoll3278 · #10 (**permalink**) 07-31-2009, 01:00 AM

Cash would be good or great
I want to build a site that helps people believe it or not. It is something I want to keep growing with new resources for ever. but the new stuff will be seo friendly thank to you and Navyfalcon

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