I think my site's HTML is good but I get 22 Invalid markup erros?

[JAARON]

Most are all related to things like facebook like buttons and such. I'm using DOCTYPE 4.01 Traditional but no good. Any ideas?

www.jaaron-wood-countertops.com

[DanDeceuster]

Joshua,

In your section you have some errors and so cleaning them up will get your code valid. Here is what you have:

At the end of each of these meta and link elements you need the closing / which is not there. So instead of ending them all with > you end them all with /> instead. That will fix a lot.

Also, you have this in your head section which doesn't belong:

Just delete it. You can't have a div in the head section. You also have a

[JAARON]

Thanks guys. I've taken out the itemprop things because I think you're right Daniel. I can't remember where I got those but I don't think they were being used right.

Nghirniac thanks for the link to the check list. I did have that already and use it a good bit.

None of the corrections really made much of a difference thought so I changed the DOCTYPE to several different ones and that only created more errors. Are there just some things that the WC3 tool will find to be incorrect no matter what?

[Naghirniac]

Did you take a look at  The web developers seo cheat sheet? I might help you. Its a very cleaver sheet giving you easy steps to review your website.

[DanDeceuster]

Couple little things you want to take care of that should fix a lot of what is going on. Any element in the section that opens with at the end of it. Your itemprop things for example are not closed properly, so that makes the validator think things that follow it are incorrect.

Also, I may be wrong here, but I believe the