page format

[ncjbhd]

Other than links, content and keywords does the format of your page and correct <!DOCTYPE> and encoding better your google stature?

The less errors the better right?

This doesnt seem to come up here as an area of discussion so I thought I'd get some feed back.

Also with speed of loading obviously setting up a css is the way to go and I was thinking that all my pages had alot of duplicate html for the last half of my pages so could I move this html into a file and have all my pages refer to it to remove duplicate content like the css function does?

This would speed up load time and would be great if it doesnt mess with the css extenal formating.

Thanks for any help