W3C HTML Validation
One of the best ways to ensure that your website complies with the guidelines held up by the major search engines use the W3C HTML validation tool. This tool is available on www.w3c.org for anyone’s use at no cost. There are other tools available as well to make sure that your site is in fine shape and is acceptable to all the major players on the web.
The use of the W3C HTML validation tool is quite simple and is absolutely free. Mind you, most likely there will be problems found with your site and plenty of work will lie ahead of you. However, this all works to your benefit as after all the work there will be a lean, clean site ready for business.
There are 3 ways to use the W3C HTML validation tool and it all starts by going to http://validator.w3.org/. The 3 options on this page are enter the URL, upload the file, or even copy and past the code into a text field. After doing so click the check button and await the results. In most cases there will be a number of items to fix some large, some small, and some you may not wish to do as it may alter the functionality of your site. The truth is that the closer you get to having your site accepted through this and the other tools available on the site, the better the chances of gaining favor in the eyes of the search engines.
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