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Optimizing_your_HTML
| Optimizing your HTML
Optimizing your HTML documents is a must for professional
webmasters, and it has many potential benefits. With a little
effort and know-how, you can clean up your HTML files and reap
the benefits today.
There are three steps to cleaning up your HTML files while you
are coding in HTML.
1) Validate your HTML using the free w3C validation service.
Validating your HTML provides cleaner HTML code and prevents
search engine bots from innacurately reading your pages.
Validated code also eliminates useless tags, and can decrease
your document's filesize, eliminating wasted bandwidth.
2) Ensure Compatibility - Try to make your HTML code
compatible with as many internet browsers as possible. Right
now, the Big Two are Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) and
Mozilla Firefox, but it is useful to optimize for older versions
of these browsers (many new HTML tags are incompatible with
these browsers), as well as other browsers like Opera and
Netscape.
3) Eliminate Excessive Whitespace Excessive whitespace is
unnessary and keeps your content lower on the page than is
necessary. Eliminating excessive whitespace is therefore
marginally useful to Search Engine Optimization.
About the author:
David Saharkhiz writes HTML coding tutorials for
novice webmasters.
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