Bing Webmaster Tools Adds Markup ValidatorThe Bing Webmaster Blog announced they have added a new feature to the crawl section named Markup Validator. To access this new feature, 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.”
Google To Punish Websites For Pre-Content Ad OverloadDue to user complaints, Google has announced that websites containing an excessive amount of advertisements at the top of their pages will now be penalized in their search engine rankings. The changes were announced by engineer Matt Cutts in a January 19 entry on the Google Webmaster Central Blog . In the piece, Cutts writes, "We’ve heard complaints from users that if they click on a result and ...
Now Test Your Sitemaps Before Submitting Them To GoogleGoogle has quietly added a feature to Google Webmaster Tools that allows you to test your sitemap files prior to submitting them to Google. Google’s Pierre Far confirmed that this is indeed a brand new feature built to help webmasters debug their sitemap files prior to submitting them.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 6, 2012PPC managers over the years have always struggled with the right number of keywords to have in their accounts. Should you build out a big inventory of long tail keywords, or keep your campaigns neat and tidy, with fewer terms that account for most of the volume?
