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Nothing can be worse than your viewers not being able to view your website properly. Have you ever thought about what will happen if your viewers never ever get a chance to view your website? If you want your site to be listed properly on search engines you, should always ensure that it has proper HTML code to support it. Any site that has HTML errors cannot be properly catalogued or indexed by many of the search engines. This can ultimately lead to a major reduction in the amount of traffic that would be received your website.

Search engines are considered to be the lowest form of the browsers, as a matter of fact they are considered to be equivalent to around version 2 of the browsers. The browsers are not even capable of reading the dynamic pages, JavaScript, DHTML and Flash. They even have a problem handling the frames. In case you are having broken HTML, the web browsers would have a major problem handling, indexing, crawling and extracting the content from your website.

The search engines try scoring the page of a website by looking for all the necessary and relevant key terms in your HTML components within your document. These key components can be anything description, title, alt image tags and visible text. If due to any kind of mistake or typo error, they are not able to find the key components, the spiders might simply leave without even checking the actual content of the web page. Poor documentation is also another reason which can cost you a good ranking on the search engine. For example, when the meta tag is placed in the Body of the web page instead of the Head section, the spider would simply ignore the tag and as a result, you would ultimately lose the ranking on the web page.

There is every possibility that due to deadlines and pressure, you can write TILTE instead of TITLE tag. As we all know the TITLE tags are very important and with this one simple error made by you can actually result in the search engine not considering the content of the web page at all. If the page is created properly by you and contains all the necessary and targeted keywords, there is every possibility that it will surely get picked up and read by the search engine. However any small error like an open tag or for that matter a missing closing bracket of the paragraph can actually cause your website or the web page ranking in the search engine.

Internet explorer is considered to be quite forgiving in terms of any kind of mistakes in the code. If you are building your website only for the Internet Explorer then undoubtedly you are building for the most forgiving browser on the net. Even thinking that your website will be treated by the search engine in the similar fashion as that of IE6 would certainly be nothing more than daydreaming. If your website is not displaying properly in the Firefox, Netscape, older versions of IE and Opera, there are all the chances that it will be read by the search engines as well. The next time you have a problem of your website not getting displayed properly in the Netscape, Opera, Firefox, simply consider rechecking your code.

You will surely be thanked by your marketing department.