I’ve been refining my blog design recently. Aesthetically it still looks the same, but the coding that makes this blog, well I’ve tweaked it. I’ve for example …

• Took out unused tags
• Tried using valid code if possible
• Put my CSS and Javascript into an external files
• Replaced as much table-html into table-css e.g div code

Why I did this? Well I kinda stumbled onto Collin’s Internet Code to Text Ratio calculator, and I found out my blog fared badly in the ratings. So after a few amendments above, my ratings improved

Well Collin’s Internet claims that “Code to Text Ratio” is important if you want to rank highly in Search Engines Results Pages (SERPs). If your websites coding structure is full of unnecessary junk then it only makes it harder for the search engines to read the important stuff on your webpage, which is your content

When search engines crawls your page and find your blog cluttered and filled with ‘crap’, it will compare it with its algorithm. So when the algorithm is only allowed to read partial part of your blog due to size restriction because of the cluttered wasteful HTML coding, there will be negative impact on your SEO part as missing content elements is missing for it to rank you high on the result listing

It does makes sense right … well another pointer learned today eh