Less whitespace is always a good thing, but it's not really a big
issue for search engines. The "code to content" ratio (ie, efficiency
of html) is more of an issue, as is getting the relevant keyword-rich
content as close to the top of the page as possible. I guess what I'm
trying to say is that good, valid, fat-free html is far, far more
useful for improving search engine rankings than removing whitespace
ever will be.
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Kay Smoljak
http://kay.smoljak.com
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:10:04 -0400, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm giving a presentation on RegEx this Wed. and one of the things
> I'll be showing is a tight little piece of code that will compress a
> webpage by removing all 'extra' spaces (and tabs, new lines, etc.)
> from all places other than script and pre tags. I'm under the
> impression that if this is done, it will make the page smaller and
> also increase the pages search engine position as it makes the entire
> page exist on one line (more if script or pre is used).
> Can anyone back this impression up with real data?
> Thanks
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