Lily O Briens – Followup

Seemingly the people behind the new Lily O’ Brien’s site were paying attention to my post and the thread over on the webmaster forum.
It’s a pity that their staff can’t be as mature and graceful as Ross, but there’s very little we can do about that ….
In any case the site now “works” in lynx and the w3c validator is no longer blocked.
I have to say “works” as the use of ALT tags etc., is woeful and totally lacking in any semantic basis which would probably cause confusion for a visually impaired user and gives zero benefit in terms of SEO. (Try browsing the site using lynx to see what I mean).
Why anyone in their right mind would want to block the w3c validator from accessing their site is beyond me. It makes me wonder what they had to hide. I suspect it was the bad coding, since none of the pages on the site were validating before the posts here and on the forum.
With regard to SEO it will be interesting to see what happens.
The original site ranked well and was obviously well indexed, as the image below illustrates:

As all the inbound links to specific pages etc., are all dead you can expect to see Lily’s SERPS being impacted negatively. Whether or not the site will eventually recover remains to be seen, but in its current state it distinctly lacks semantic textual content.
Only time will tell.