How to make your website more indexable by search engines

I see Michael Arrington has a post on TechCrunch today about Dipsie dCloak – this is a product which is supposed to help websites make their content more indexable by search engines.

That sounds laudable enough I hear you say – but wait a minute, I know two words which can help you do that without the aid of any product – the words? Web Standards. Build a site which is web standards compliant and search engines will have no problems indexing your site – also, you site will load faster, will be cross browser compatible and will work predictably on most mobile browsers!

Don’t know if your site is web standards compliant – check it out using the free validator on the W3C site.

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2 Responses to “How to make your website more indexable by search engines”


  1. 1 Fintan Gaughan

    Did it on your website and the Result:Failed validation, 3 errors

  2. 2 Tom Raftery

    Excellent Fintan,

    that’ll teach me to be pontificating, won’t it?

    Thanks for pointing that out – those errors are now fixed,

    Cheers,

    Tom

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