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Babak Naffas
Babak Naffas

Reputation: 12561

SEO implications of invalid XML for Strict DOCTYPE

I'm working on some search engine optimizations on a variety of websites and have noticed that a number of them contain invalid XHTML and are using the XHTML 1.0 Strict DOCTYPE

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

I wonder how much (if at all) this would affect search engines. Any relevant literature would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 335

Answers (1)

Tony McCreath
Tony McCreath

Reputation: 3399

Matt Cutts from Google said no in 2009. I'd suspect their stance has not changed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPBACTS-tyg

Upvotes: 1

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