{"id":182,"date":"2012-04-14T12:14:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T12:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/?p=182"},"modified":"2012-04-17T16:26:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T16:26:36","slug":"how-important-is-w3-validation-for-search-engine-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/2012\/04\/14\/how-important-is-w3-validation-for-search-engine-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"How important is w3 validation for search engine rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A page that is written in valid code is well on its way to being accessible, as well (but the two are not interchangeable!).<\/p>\n<p>Google doesn&#8217;t just look at inbound links and mostly ignores meta tags (as both have been massively abused by spammers) &#8211; in fact, Google actually traverses pages for contents. If the contents is placed in valid HTML, your chances will be somewhat improved. The second step is using SEO (Search Engine Optimization) &#8211; the best way to do that is to write valid *and* accessible code. Things like source ordering and correct *use* of HTML are very important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A page that is written in valid code is well on its way to being accessible, as well (but the two are not interchangeable!). Google doesn&#8217;t just look at inbound links and mostly ignores meta tags (as both have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/2012\/04\/14\/how-important-is-w3-validation-for-search-engine-rankings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}