(Entry was posted by Devin Peterso on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/14/2014).
Do you think there is some benefit to going back and fixing sloppy code?
I recently began looking at old pages I created as product descriptions for an ecommerce site I have. I used to write these descriptions with a WYSIWYG editor but eventually started writing the code directly once I became better and more efficient with it. I`ve noticed a lot of sloppy coding due to the WYSIWYG editor. For example:
and
and there are lots of
tags where it should be
. There are other examples of coding where the WYSIWYG editor made everything look sloppy, but it doesn`t actually affect how it looks on the site. Do you think there is some benefit to going back and fixing these problems? I am not asking if it`s WORTH THE TIME, just if it could potentially have any effect at all (in terms of ranking of course), even on the smallest of scales.?
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