Validate Every Page in Your Blog

Posted on August 19, 2007
Filed Under WordPress SEO |

Website validation is the process of ensuring that the pages on the website conform to the standards defined by authority organizations. Validation is important, and will ensure that your web pages are interpreted in the same way (the way you want it) by various machines, such as search engines, as well as users and visitors to your webpage.

What if you don’t validate? There may be errors in your code, these errors may be introduced by the theme, the plugins, your customization, or your post contents. Invalid codes prevent a search engine from moving through the site successfully. The end result is that, your blog got less indexed than those which are validated.

WordPress provides detailed documentation - Validating a Website:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website
This document describes Validation Techniques, HTML Validation, CSS Validation, Feeds Validation, and tools and resources.

The only difference is whether or not you are going to do it.

If you pick up a few blogs randomly from the net and validate them, half of them may fail. Thus if you validate your blog’s home page and every post page, and fix any errors you identified, then your blog earns competitive advantage ahead of many other blogs.
Many themes already included one or more build-in validation links. In my Mordenpaper theme, when clicking the XHTML link, it starts validation for the current page by W3C. If validation passed, you’ll see a message “This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!”. You may either customize the theme or use plugin to add more validation functions on the blog. It’s very handy.

When choosing a theme, run validations on a few pages to check potential errors. If the theme introduce code errors that make validation fail, you should consider using another theme.

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  1. The 3 Most Important WordPress Documentations to Help You Build SEO Blogs : WordPress Profit on August 20th, 2007 3:00 pm

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