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Old 11-15-2007, 01:08 AM
John Bokma
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Default Re: comparing seo techniques [was: To hyphen or not to hyphen]

"canadafred" <canadian_web@hotmail.com> wrote:

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> 2. Be careful with symbols.
> <span class="code">"en"</span> should be <span
> class="code">&quot;en&quot;</span>


AFAIK: not really. Note that ",', and even > as content for elements is
legal. Moreover: A parser (googlebot) will internally always decode &quot;
into ", so there is no advantage IMO

> Webdesign & SEO consulting should be Webdesign &amp; SEO consulting


Yup. Since the validator insists on this. IMO and technically each UA
should be able to get that & followed by a space is not special :-)

> 3. <A HREF="/websitedesign/" title="Website design - webdesign and
> Search engine optimisation">Webdesign &amp; SEO consulting</a> I hope
> this links to a web page about Webdesign &amp; SEO consulting 'cause
> that's the impression I'm getting from looking at the code. Actually,
> this may be very good only because you have used this lightly. <A
> HREF should be <a href lowercases, lowercases, lower ...


For HTML this doesn't (case insensitive) matter. For XHTML it does, and
then you're very right. Personally I stick to lower case, it reads more
pleasantly :->

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