Originally Posted by greeneagle

Toward the beginning of this month we went through the W3C Validation re-coding exercise on one of our client's home pages, as time allows we will complete every page: http://www.tubeltechnologies.com/

Coincidently, We are seeing many new search engine bots show up including the new MSNBot. This client’s traffic has tripled in the last three or four days.

We are not seeing the same bot activity on other client sites and MSNbot hasn’t visited the other sites yet.

1) Is anyone else seeing similar results on validated pages over no-validated?

2) Does MSNBot or any of the other bots favor W3C validated pages in the rush for relevancy?

It is starting to appear that way to us.

It’s not so far fetched to think that a secret relevancy weapon in the MSNbot alogrithms is to prioritize validated pages, is it?

Wouldn't it benefit the W3C (an academic organization) to have Microsoft throw their weight behind them?

Ken