kartooner

Since the move, I have alot of resid­ual markup that needs a good scrub­bing. Cleans­ing the 300-plus arti­cles has become quite a chore in itself, mostly because when I started this site I hadn’t a grasp of valid, seman­tic markup which means a good per­cent­age of sloppy code.

I was more con­cerned with writ­ing the arti­cle than the markup and put the toxic waste cleanup on the back­burner, which brings me to today, of which I deem Judge­ment Day. Con­sid­er­ing this project is long over­due I have decided to comb through my entries — if you may — and cleanse them of erro­neous, non-semantic markup.

The end result of this cleanup is obvi­ous; seman­tic markup is a shoe in for Google’s index. My buddy Paul Grif­fin of Rel­a­tively Absolute goes into more detail about this, but essen­tially in a prover­bial nut­shell it means guar­an­teed search results, amongst other ben­e­fits.

No need for spe­cial SEO or URL sub­mis­sions, the work of get­ting effec­tive search results is done for you, and it’s all due to the won­ders of valid seman­tic XHTML.