Welcome to the Validation+Navigation=Crawlability Group

As the name of this group suggests, we deal with validation and navigation issues and how they impact crawlability.

Crawlability is a robot's ability to crawl a website, a prerequisite to indexing the site's content, and by extension, impacts the ability of any of the content to rank in search engines.

All we discuss here will apply to all search engines, but the focus is usually on Google.

The tools needed are:

• The w3c html validator: http://validator.w3.org
• The w3c CSS validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
• Xenu - http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
• The Oyoy toolset: http://oyoy.eu
• The Web Snifffer: http://web-sniffer.net
• An open mind and a doze of humility to accept the verdict and the solutions

The Pages on the right side will be useful and referred to frequently.