I contacted Yahoo support to find out why my sites are not getting indexed. Put simply my home pages has way too many validation errors to index.
I ran the HTML validator and it reported over 250 errors. DNN 4.7.0
I would appreciate feedback from any previous experience it resolving validation errors: I checked my skin and css file but they do not appear to be the primary cause of the errors. DotNetNuke.com had over 100 validation errors and even Yahoo.com themselves had over 30. Because my sites are not getting indexed by Yahoo I must correct as many errors as possible.
While a good portion of the errors are repeats I am sure to have dozens of code changes to various areas of my sites.
Hopefully future upgrades will not blow away all my works, however I will document my findings and changes.
there is no attribute "ID"
NET-enabling start-tag requires SHORTTAG YES
character data is not allowed here
value of attribute "ID" invalid: "_" cannot start a name
there is no attribute "NAME"
required attribute "TYPE" not specified
document type does not allow element "LINK" here
document type does not allow element "DIV" here
document type does not allow element "TR" here
there is no attribute "HEIGHT"
document type does not allow element "DIV" here; missing one of "APPLET", "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", "BUTTON" start-tag
there is no attribute "TABINDEX"
required attribute "ALT" not specified
end tag for element "P" which is not open
document type does not allow element "UL" here; missing one of "APPLET", "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", "BUTTON" start-tag
end tag for "TR" which is not finished
document type does not allow element "P" here; missing one of "APPLET", "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", "BUTTON" start-tag
syntax of attribute value does not conform to declared value
value of attribute "ALIGN" cannot be ""; must be one of "TOP", "MIDDLE", "BOTTOM", "LEFT", "RIGHT"
reference to non-SGML character
literal is missing closing delimiter
I am not sure the best way to start but just identifying the cause and resolution of these errors would likley resolve most of the 250+ validation errors I received.
I am also not sure of DNN dyanmic generation, what to change?
Thanks for any insight, support, feedback.. - webvalley