The importance of double checking your code

byJoshuaMeain

202 followers

10 years ago

Well well.

HTML Coding can be quite simple but make one mistake and you will be pulling out your hair.

So here is my story. One day I decided that my website needed so games on it. I thought it would be a great idea to get some traffic. So out I go researching for some cat games because I own a cat website. After a full day of screwing around trying to find good ones and getting them embed into drafts I go to sleep.

I come back and put the 25 games I selected in to sub pages under a cat game page. This makes 26 pages overall. I then decide to write 120-170 words of content to these pages. Which is around 3770 words of content.

This is all good till I realize that my visual editor isn't working. Oh well back to basics. I do it all and good.

Then I decide to do internal links to every page suggesting to play "this game here". All is good I thought. I copy the code I already made because why write out the same boring "href=" "img", "src", "width", "alt" crap over and over again right? Wrong!

When I was all done I felt good but to my surprise google had emailed me. They reported a number of 404 errors on my site and was stating they will de-index the mentioned urls. I kinda freaked.

On closer inspection It wasn't as bad as I thought however.......

It took me an entire days work to fix all this %^&$ code up on every f'n single page. I could of been doing better things in that time.

Moral of the story:

Double and triple check your code or you will end up like me.

Only copy and paste if you are %200 sure it works.