In the past, there have been a good increase in the number of search engine optimizers given emphasis on the significance of W3C compliance as a crucial part of a website promotion.

However, the question is whether the compliant code really does the kind of magic most website promoters think it would.

A W3C compliant website is one that abides by all the coding standards laid own by the W3C. W3C or World Wide Web Consortium is a huge organization with compromises of more than four hundred members including all big search engines and major international corporation.

W3C has been a significant part of web world since 1994. However, the awareness of the general industry has taken a good amount of time. In fact it has only been three years that W3C compliance has created a buzzword in the web design industries and SEO terms.

Here are some myths associated to W3C compliance.

Browsers such as Opera, FireFox and Lynx will not be able to display web pages properly:
The main reason that standard compliance is necessary is browser compatibility. Experts claim that FireFox will display everything except the broken code and that too without any difficulty.

Search engines will have problems indexing your website:
This is not fully true. It is not the number of errors that results in the nervous breakdown of a search engine spider but the type of error that’s encountered. Hence, as long as the W3C code validator an parse the source code of a page from top to bottom, a search engine can index it and also classify its’ content.

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