Hello Readers, in
this post we will learn how to minimize Blogger XHTML errors to validate it for
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). Unziptech has always shared useful articles
for blogging and SEO optimization tips. This post focuses on the same category
and a very important topic W3c validation. You might have not noticed this
thing yet, but all the blogger templates have some or many XHTML errors which
may lead to slower page loads and crawl errors on your blog. There is one more
thing that you should know about these errors that completely removing these
errors is nearly impossible because of some server side coding in the
templates. So we will learn how to minimize these errors in this article.
How to validate blogger blog XHTML templates for W3C
Fix Document Type Definition:
The first thing
you should do is to fix the document type definition, generally the first two
lines of the blog template. Follow these steps:
- Login in to your blogger template.
- Take a backup of your Blogger blog to avoid any loss.
- Click on edit template and find the following lines of code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
- Replace these lines by the following code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
- Save your template and you are done.
You have just
fixed your blog's DTD. If your blog's template doesn't have the above code let
it remain unchanged because it may increase the errors count.
Fix your Images:
I have written a
complete article for this topic. Images without alt tag are useless for your
blog and they won't help you in SEO. They may also create XHTML errors or
warnings in your blog. So start optimizing your blog images to minimize these errors/warnings and for
better SEO optimization.
Remove hyperlinks from comments:
I know this is
kind of a big task and being a blogger user we don't have facility to edit and
remove hyperlinks from the comments. But still you can minimize the count of
comments that includes spam hyperlinks by marking them spam from your blogger dashboard.
Hyperlinks create XHTML errors in the blog templates.
Avoid using Hierarchal Archives:
I have seen many
blog authors offering hierarchal archives of their blog posts which is a bad
SEO optimization practice as well as it increases the XHTML errors. Your best
bet is to display a simple drop-down list or removing the archives widget.
Remove quick edit:
You might have
noticed that Blogger gives you a facility to edit your widgets right from your
blog if you are signed in. It displays a quick edit icon at the bottom of every
widget you add to your blog. It makes your work easy but it is one of the
biggest reasons of the XHTML errors. You can remove the following code from
your blog for fixing this problem:
<b:include
data='post' name='postQuickEdit'/>
or
<b:include name='quickedit'/>
This code will
be occurring multiple times on your blog depending upon the number of widgets
you have used. Remember remove this code after every new widget you insert into
your blog.
After fixing all
the above mentioned errors, validate your blog once again. I am sure you have
minimized the number of errors and warnings. If you have any problem regarding any step
mentioned in this article, you can comment here. I will be glad to help you.
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Yes you need to re-edit all your posts to add alt tags,,I edited 50+ posts on my blog to add alt and title tags..
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