Do you think W3C compliance will affect the search engine rankings of a website? This question has hit many people via lot of journals many times in the past. However, the basic conclusions always have been that W3C is very important for the compatibility and usability of the browser.

However, experts feel that it does not have any direct impact on the ranking of Google. This is because google themselves do not validate.

However, most people still make sure that their pages validate W3C standards. In the future, it may be a possibility that google include W3C validity in their algorithm.

However, remember that there is a lot more to the web as compared to only google. There is also a Yahoo, Ask.com and MSN’s live search. These are also traffic generators in the international search market.

In case, you are thinking of running a social media campaign or running a story on Digg, most of the Digg users utilize browser such as safari or fire fox.

It is very important to test your web pages in browsers to build web page. The W3C sets the standards for coding HTML and CSS for web pages. The best part is that they also provide tools to validate your code for free of cost.

The content of the website will count a lot:

Use W3C in order to make sure your website is viewable in major browsers such as firefox and safari.
Test your site on mobile browsers.
Check for all errors in HTML coding and fix them when possible.

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