Markup Validator In Bing Webmaster Tools

By Navjot Singhnavjot singh

A new feature named Markup Validator added in Bing Webmaster Tool to the crawl section. Login to Bing Webmaster Tools and click on the “Crawl” tab. Then on the right side or bottom left side there is an option to click on “Markup Validator.”

Duane from Bing said that while not all code validation issues have an impact on your web page from loading or rankings, “having the syntax incorrect can affect our ability to use the data as you intend.”

The tool scans for:

• HTML Microdata
• Microformats
• RDFa
• Schema.org
• Open Graph

How to Optimize Flash Sites

Flash sites still can be optimized. There are several approaches to this:

• Input metadata
  This is a very important approach, although it is often underestimated and misunderstood. Although metadata is not as important to search engines as it used to be, Flash development tools allow easily to add metadata to your movies, so there is no excuse to leave the metadata fields empty.
• Provide alternative pages
  For a good site it is a must to provide html only pages that do not force the user to watch the Flash movie. Preparing these pages requires more work but the reward is worth because not only users, but search engines as well will see the html only pages.