[ShawneyJ]

i just created a really cool sidebar for my forum and ran it through W3C validator, and omg, there was like 30 errors lol. i fixed most, but theres only so much i can fix in the coding for vb3 with out an error appearing on my boards.

anyways, i got looking around at other users forums here at vb org, and seen everyone of them with W3C validator errors. i read around the net on other sites about how it effects your google PR etc. some say it hurts PR some say it dont.

google wrote:

Q: Does validating my site's code (with a tool such as the W3C validator) help my site's ranking in Google?
A: No, at least not directly. However, to the extent that cleaning up your HTML makes your site render better in a variety of browsers, more accessible to people with disabilities or folks accessing your pages on portable or other devices, and so on, it can improve the popularity of your site... increasing traffic, natural links to your site (which can help with your Google ranking), and so on.

i noticed youtube has HEAPS of W3C validator errors, but yet thats google ran isn't it?

i was just wondering does anyone here take note of their sites W3C validator errors, or even cares about it?

cheers.