Can W3C compliance and accessibility impact your Search Engine Optimisation? It's a common question and the answer is "definitely maybe".
From experience having a site that is 100% code compliant doesn’t give you any direct SEO benefit. That said throwing up a page with complete disregard for valid code is looking for trouble. If you put your page into a validator and it comes back with hundreds of errors you may be looking for trouble. Depending on what your errors are you may have made it harder for a search engine bot to crawl your website. However if you can get it down to handful of errors (such as images or search boxes), it might not be worth the time obsessing over those last few details.
A site designed with XHTML is a different kettle of fish altogether. With strict compliance you really should be 100% valid. If you site is likely to end up on a mobile device such as a phone or iPaq then it has a better chance of not "breaking". Until mobile browsers become more advanced, forgiving and standardized it’s going to be rough going and 100% W3C compliance is a really good idea.
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