Is A Lack of Proofreading Holding You Back?
November 25, 2007
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One of the things that’s always stressed if you want your blog to succeed is to create quality, original content. And one of the ingredients in “quality” is spell-checking. Yeah, I know it’s not a really sexy subject for reading on a Sunday afternoon, but it’s one of the things that can make or break the number of people who return to your blog.Now, don’t get me wrong. I know that not everyone can be the best speller in the world. But if you’re going to be blogging, you should at least be able to run the spell check on whatever you might use to write your posts. And if your editor doesn’t have the ability to check spelling, maybe you should do the initial writing in Microsoft Word, or Open Office Write, and spell check it there before pasting it into your blog editor.
If I come across a site that’s littered with spelling errors, I’m sorry, but I’m not likely to return. I know it sounds judgemental, but that’s the way it is. Writers should at least be capable of spelling properly in their native language. Obviously, if I know that someone is translating on the fly from another language into English, I’m going to cut them a little slack. The same way that I hope some people would cut me a little slack when I try to translate English into Esperanto. Because I certainly know that I make mistakes.
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November 27th, 2007 at 3:41 am
AMEN brother! I’m exactly the same way - if spelling and grammar are bad, then I’m outta there never to return. LOL — you have hit on a pet peeve of mine.
I’m bad to go back to posts of my own and fix typos and stuff that are weeks old. I try not to make them in the first place, but some days you get in a hurry.
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November 27th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Thanks for the comment, Margaret. I think my biggest peeve is people who use “loose” when they actually mean to use “lose”. I’m rather surprised at just how common this is.
December 4th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
I agree and disagree - I am all for proofreading. I have some of my family and friends proofread each of my articles before I publish them. This ensures that it makes sense to every-day readers. However, I will not leave a blog simply because of spelling/grammar errors. There has been only one site that I have been forced to leave because it was completely impossible to read, however if a website offers quality content and has a few accidental errors in the articles, I am not too worried about it.
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December 5th, 2007 at 8:12 am
I’m not saying that if there’s a spelling mistake or two that I won’t be back. I certainly make spelling mistakes as well, don’t get me wrong. But if a post has them throughout, it’s going to give me pause as to whether to go back or not.