Website Coding, is it needed?

imo that code isnt really bad,
focus on other seo questions i’d say

cheers

Ditto.

DW doesnt add that much unneccsary code – the extras it adds are mainly for documentation. There are other programs that add more unnec code..

Agreed with elgoog though – i’d probably concentrate on other SEO questions than spend time on recoding your site.

Cheers

As far as your visitors are concerned …

No you don’t need to have it recoded.
No you don’t need to move to CSS.
No you don’t need to reorganise your pages or your words to follow any other SEO fad.
:roflmao:

It MIGHT make a slight difference to SEARCH ENGINES to do any all of these things – but honesty these sort of suggestions are made by technicians that love to make their own ideas sound better – the reality is that no-one can quantify the differnences that you might see from doing this – because there really is NOT ANY MEASUREABLE DIFFERENCE.

My partner produces content using a cheap WYSIWYG application and has no idea of HTML or Search Engine requirements. She just writes good content – it ranks well. I’d much rather that see concentrated on content than worried about SEO.
:hattip:

Old Dreamweavers do add some bad code but not as bad as front page.

Do what you can, just think that search engines like clean and in the long run… you use less bandwidth which might save you money but great html with bad content might mean nothing so, don’t kill yourself over html.

I hate the code that DW generates, it’s very difficult to work with when you are used to hand coding HTML. Haven’t worked with the latest version of DW, so maybe it is better now. That said, the tidiness of your code has very little bearing on SEO. As long as Google can see the content on your web pages and you are smartly using Title tags, header tags, etc. you will be fine.

Mate

DW doesn’t add unnecessary code to your pages. It even has a tool to clean your HTML. If you don’t like DW there are many tools available. Even Firefox has a free html editor.

My personal experience – CSS pages (tableless sites) are SEO friendlier. Again that’s my personal experience because it theory spiders strip your html anyways.

Like people said earlier there’re must important things to focus when optimizing your page.

Good luck.

Wow….how did I miss this thread?

|Code used to hurt because the moew you had the slower your site loaded. These days there are more high speed user than dial-up, but when this was a concern it was just the oposite.

The other myth is that you need to put your optimised code closer the the beginning of your page source.

You don’t need to worry about either of these points.

High speed connection are more common, and all the primary SE’s have the bandwidth to crawl deeper and longer through huge sites daily.

Hate to be redundant, but everyone that has said to concentrate on anything else, is right.

On a side note I would run Xenu through your site to be sure you don’t have any bad navigation, loops or similar content/titles.

Yep. Great feedback.

@GaryTheScubaGuy 197905 wrote:

Code used to hurt because the moew you had the slower your site loaded. These days there are more high speed user than dial-up, but when this was a concern it was just the oposite.

There is still a point at which you can overdo it though. Especially with large tables, javascript and flash objects and complex database queries. Although with DW the latter isn’t really a concern. Also, if you are on slower shared hosting that can couple up with labour-intensive pages to create a problem.

The main issue with programs like DW is organisation. For example, it won’t know the table “row” trick to put links after content.