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Of course you don't attract more visitors by putting a w3c button on your site.
Neither does flash, or even prettier layouts. People come because they want the information contained therein. Does the end user care how the code is made? Does anyone really care that you used an industrial-strength Oracle DB to make sure everything runs fine and dandy? Not really.
The point of conforming to w3c standards is not for the sake of conformance. The issue is that by doing so you are pushing toward a more uniform web (IE: my site should display the same in IE as it does in Netscape, or Opera, or Insert Name of Browser Here). Just because a browser puts up with your bad coding doesn't mean that it should.
The reason W3C standards are not exactly hand in hand with current browser technology is that the browsers are not supporting standards. There are some crazy CSS properties that do everything but make coffee in the morning, but aren't supported by IE/Netscape. Those features are actually useful. (min-width/max-width anyone? Or how about columns without resorting to tables?)
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