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How Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO)

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Feb 26, 202632:32Technology

Martin and Gary unpack how HTML parsing really works, why the HTML standard is so lenient, and how messy markup can silently break key SEO signals like hreflang and rel=canonical. They revisit validators and cross‑browse...

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How Browsers Really Parse HTML (and What That Means for SEO) is an episode from Search Off the Record by Google Developer Studio. Martin and Gary unpack how HTML parsing really works, why the HTML standard is so lenient, and how messy marku...

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Published Feb 26, 2026, 32:32 long, audio available.

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