as far as i am aware, search engines can only read your code and content, 100% true, everyone knows that.
it can tell if your site validates, 100% true, everyone knows that.
ok, lets go back to basic web design, lets say the doctype, it is a statement, yes ? - just like a piece of code - its a statement ( or in programming world, a command )
lets take meta
meta = read me and issue these as tags / descriptions etc
code = read me and check me
as far as i am aware there is not a single mention of 'compare against other websites' - would be too complicated to code, even for google because it would mean finding code that was alike and penalising that, -
unfortunately, code always outputs as
html, which obviously has limited use, unlike
php, - what we can not read, bots can not read, so by that conclusion, the only way to achieve a compare rule would be to literally hunt each cms, forum, blog etc and compare them, an easy job for a bot -
but the flaw comes from the templating, each template has its own code, different from the next, maybe even something as simple as a new header, or a different colour font or even something as simple as your content text ( this would also be applied on the website owners site too, not just the template to download ) - it would take an immense amount of memory and power to take every one and compare it before indexing
conclusion
too many variables, would it really be worth the hassle ? i don't think so, content is more important than code, but its great if your code validates ( from a bots point of view )
thats how i look at it
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Originally Posted by alexgeek
I think Mike's going to disagree with you there  |
obviously there is allot more that is checked, but when it comes to the coding as a whole, that is it