Comments on: Does W3C Validation Matter? http://www.seoish.com/does-w3-validation-matter/ Widget strategy, Google Gadgets, iGoogle, and the shifting sands of SEO. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:11:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: John http://www.seoish.com/does-w3-validation-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-23 John Mon, 14 May 2007 22:41:01 +0000 http://seoish.com/does-w3-validation-matter/#comment-23 See http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing/msg/5ef369e2ce4f6b8c for a statement by a Google employee :-) I did something similar on a slightly larger scale - not conclusive, very volatile, things go in and out daily, it all depends on when you check the numbers. My conclusion was: small things don't matter, big things waste potential value (eg missing/unreadable "title"). See http://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing/msg/5ef369e2ce4f6b8c for a statement by a Google employee :-)

I did something similar on a slightly larger scale – not conclusive, very volatile, things go in and out daily, it all depends on when you check the numbers. My conclusion was: small things don’t matter, big things waste potential value (eg missing/unreadable “title”).

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