bb1webs wrote:
thanks guys for the info.
…. now I’m afraid to go look. 
but at least when I can face the truth …. I know where to start lol.
Cheers
S.
Yes, just use the validator to find open html tags or missing tags, most browsers are pretty forgiving anyway.
The affiliate links generate tons of errors so just ignore them. Even a missing or extra tag like a
or
for instance will generate a bunch. Soon as it’s corrected many of the errors disappear. It will report any text missing in the alt tags however and any other basic syntax errors.
He does have a ton of pages crawled in Google and Yahoo, just need to clean the code up a little and optimize better.