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While I'm no big fan of SEO and all that surrounds it: Will this open-tag-thing here influence how crawlers handle your site and index/rank it?

• aparks517 4y ago
  I don’t expect it to as long as the mark-up is valid. Perhaps someone with more SEO knowledge will stop by to correct me.
  • martin_a 4y ago
    You're right. HTML5 does not work with DTDs anymore, so unclosed tags are not a violation of the document schema and therefore probably not "punishable" by search engines.
    • anjbe 4y ago
      Implicit end tags as described in the article have been allowed by every HTML DTD not named XHTML.
• exyi 4y ago
  I have no idea what Google does, but expect their parsers to be quite robust. I tried doing some web scraping, and so many pages are not even valid HTML (most often invalid nested tags, like a table inside span, missing closing tags even when required, random unopened closing tags, ...). Not closing <p> and <td> tags is quite common, I have not seen omitted <html> <head> and <body> yet.