It's probably safer to say at this point that semantic coding certainly can't hurt your search engine ranking :)
Chris -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jono Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] SEO, Semantics, and Web Standards I've always been fascinated by the search results for for certain words on Google. Sometimes it is hard to tell - by viewing page source - why the top result is in fact the top result. For exampel, try searching for "Fried Chicken" on Google. Take a look at the top two results, and then take a look at their code. You'll discover that Number 2 is much worse than number 1, which is not very good to begin with. If clean code has anything to do with SEO, this is definitely a good case study. The third result has the worst coding of them all... I'm not sure how it even made it to number 3? There is also a lop-sided brand competition between the top two ( see 1 & 2 in Google search results for "Fried Chicken" ), which probably has a lot to do with it as well. On Feb 24, 2005, at 7:48 PM, heretic wrote: >> So can I hear it from the experts (ie: you guys) what the truth behind >> SEO really is. Are semantics worth anything? > > Well, it's hard to find the hard data to back this up... but what does > come up consistently is this: semantically-correct markup will improve > rankings. I can't say definitively how much it will improve, but it > does seem to work :) ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
