I have a website which has got around 1000 pages. I declared all html doctype to use XHTML 1.0 strict<\/p>\n
I checked the website pages using\u00a0W3C markup validation tool<\/a>, \u00a0I got 320 errors, Then I changed the doctype to HTML 4.0 the errors reduced to 300.<\/p>\n Then I used the HTML5 doctype, Then errors got reduced to 75. So How these errors got reduced by just changing the doctype.<\/p>\n My Question is:<\/p>\n 1) Validating my pages against XHTML1.0 \u00a0standards gives me more than 300 errors, Which is quite huge and bit difficult to resolve them.<\/p>\n 2) Validating my pages against HTML5 standards gives me around 70 errors, Which is not a issue and can resolve them easily.<\/p>\n So In this case which HTML version i have to use so that It does not affects SEO of the pages, Because w3c validation also affects the SEO<\/p>\n If i just use HTML5 doctype but not exactly the page structure (nav, header, section, footer, article ….), Will this really matters Because I have got around 1000 pages which is very difficult make them to follow the HTML5 page structure.<\/p>\n What i am thinking is to reduce the errors in w3c, I will just change the doctype to HTML5 and resolve the w3c errors. Is this a good idea. Or If any please suggest me.<\/strong><\/p>\n I have a website which has got around 1000 pages. I declared all html doctype to use XHTML 1.0 strict I checked the website pages using\u00a0W3C markup validation tool, \u00a0I got 320 errors, Then I changed the doctype to HTML … Continue reading
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