"John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
news:Xns982B7CA64A8F4castleamber@130.133.1.4...
> "Royceee" <royce.bathrooms@btconnect.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Although my site is doing pretty well on Google, Im searching for ways
>> to make it do better, I have got some links coming into my site which
>> has made my PR good but im looking for ways to further improve my
>> search engine results.
>> I read that untidy code and more code than content can slow things
>> down. Is this true?
>
> Yes and no. Untidy code as in code that doesn't validate *might* result
> in a SE misunderstanding your code. Also, untidy code could mean that
> you're using HTML in the wrong way, for example:
>
> <h1>Perl support by an expert Perl programmer</h1>
>
> is good
>
> <tr><td><font size="6" face="...."><b><i>Support</i></b></font></td>
> </tr>

Also clean code is easier to follow when making additions to the site that
you need to add html and not do it with an editor. You can easily mess up
when it isn't straight with less fluff. I know I have done it. But if it
isn't a very important page and you can make changes without a disaster then
fine.

I am working on this site and had to add a calendar
http://www.houstonpianist.com/calend...nt-booking.htm
.. Over 1300 lines of code with a lot of fluff. I can move over a lot with
CSS and even have a CSS in place and have started cleaning out a bit. But
you know it isn't worth it as the calendar isn't going to rank anyway. But
it is valid error free code, messy but it is fine. To me it was easier to
fix the errors than make it totally neat and tidy.:-) All the main pages are
neat and tidy.

Stacey
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