How Does Validating Site Code helps your SEO?
- mostly consistent display for your sites with many browsers (which display the one and same - unvalid - page very differently) and making your site more readable for different user agents
- helping exposing and repairing barriers to accessibility
- encouraging compliance with existing accessibility guidelines - such as W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) or Section 508
- making websites accessible to all individuals, including those with disabilities
- demonstrating professional coding skills
Here are 3 interesting Schema Validators or Rich Snippets Semantic Markups Checkers as well as deep code validators that any SEO Auditor will definitely find useful in his/her SEO Audit.
1- Google Structured Data Test
- You can find it under the Webmaster Tools or in the Google Structured Data Test external Link
- You can either enter the Page URL or copy and Paste the code snippet to validate (test/Check)
- You can also find examples and Previews of Structured Data (authors, Products, events, Music, people, recipes, reviews, etc.)
2- Validome.Org
- Allows validation of XML 1.0 documents according to W3C specifications. » XML Validator «
- Standalone grammar validator for XML DTDs and Schemas. » DTD / Schema-Validator «
- Advanced Feed-Validator for » RSS and Atom «
- Validates your » Google Sitemap(s) « on XML conformity and specific requirements
3- XML Schema Validator
- Lets you validate XML documents such as XHTML against the appropriate schemas.
- It performs a more accurate validation than the W3C validator.
- If you send XHTML documents as text/html, you should also test them in XHTML Proxy.
- This service does not perform generic XML Schema validation.
- While it can verify the well-formedness of any XML document, validation is only available with the built-in schemas.
- This validator does not download any DTD or schema files, but relies on its own ones.
- You can validate XML documents by URL, by file upload or by direct input.
- You can validate fragments of XML documents. You can easily validate the page that is currently displayed in your browser with this bookmarklet.
4- hCard microformat Validator
5- W3C Markup Validation
This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets, MobileOK content, or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools available. As an alternative you can also try our non-DTD-based validator.
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