Wrong Encoding Can Cause Poor Search Engine Rank
admin on Jul 06 2008 | Filed under: webmaster help
HughesTech Labs:
Webmasters, using the wrong encoding tags can cause poor Search Engine Rank!
The following tag can get you in big trouble with the Search Engines:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd“>
This tag is fine if you don’t use tables, but if you do use tables, it tends to hide all content within the tables […]

