Title: Bing Webmaster not validating
Last modified: July 13, 2018
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# Bing Webmaster not validating
* Resolved [charliejustus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charliejustus/)
* (@charliejustus)
* [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bing-webmaster-not-validating/)
* Hi guys,
* I’ve noticed that if I use SEO Framework to validate my site with Bing Webmaster,
it doesn’t work. Could it be the fact that the code that SEO Framework spits
out omits the forward slash at the end? Google doesn’t seem to care and validates
easily but Bing being Microsoft, I would imagine that they’re really anal about
how the code appears.
* ``
* Whereas Bing gives you
* ``
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* Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
* (@cybr)
* [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bing-webmaster-not-validating/#post-10490914)
* Hi Charlie,
* TSF does include the `/>` part:
[https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/blob/3.0.6/inc/classes/render.class.php#L921](https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/blob/3.0.6/inc/classes/render.class.php#L921)
* Are you using an HTML-minification plugin? It might be too aggressive 🙁
* Thread Starter [charliejustus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charliejustus/)
* (@charliejustus)
* [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bing-webmaster-not-validating/#post-10490955)
* Ah ok, I’ll see what I can do to rein it in.
* Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
* (@cybr)
* [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bing-webmaster-not-validating/#post-10490977)
* Sure thing! If you find the culprit, feel free to share it — I might be able
to submit a fix for the problematic code.
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## Tags
* [bing webmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/bing-webmaster/)
* [SEO Framework](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/seo-framework/)
* 3 replies
* 2 participants
* Last reply from: [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
* Last activity: [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bing-webmaster-not-validating/#post-10490977)
* Status: resolved