Okay, this blog post will deal with my opinion on the spelling and grammar aspect of blogging.  I cannot state clearly enough to you that this is one mans opinion on the subject, and I do not wish to cause offence to anyone reading this who is of a different school of thought.  I respect your opinion!

Spelling and grammar are such important aspects to blogging, yet they are so easy to overlook.  After all, if the ethos behind a blog post is solid, then spelling and grammar shouldn’t really matter, right?

Wrong.

I can’t be the only one who holds the following opinions, so if you want to maximise your blog to its fullest potential, please be aware that spelling and grammar should be regarded with the highest esteem.

Okay, here goes…..

 

Check Your Spelling Before Publishing Your Blog Post

I believe that it’s crucial when writing for your blog that you check your spelling before you publish.  If I come across a blog which has numerous spelling mistakes, it doesn’t matter to me if that particular article is the most amazing and life-changing article on the internet.  In my eyes, my experience has been soured by spelling mistakes, and the author goes down in my estimation.

If you can’t be bothered to do a simple spell-check before publishing, why should I bother reading your post?  Treat your audience with respect, check your spelling!

Now before you think I’m some sort of spelling Nazi, I’d like to state that I don’t particularly mind the odd spelling mistake here and there.  We’ve all made spelling mistakes before posting, as the excitement of publishing a new post (that’s the way I feel) may take precedence over a boring task like spell-checking.  It’s just when each paragraph or (worse) sentence has a spelling mistake, I’m likely to click the ‘back’ button in disgust / contempt / rage (I can’t help it, it’s just the way I feel).

So if you find any spelling mistakes within this post (or indeed within my blog) then please don’t feel like you have to throw it back in my face!  I can tell you’re scanning right now for spelling mistakes, stop it…..

Make Sure Your Grammar Is Of A Certain Standard

How much blogs has yourself looked at what have grammatical experimentations like so?  Whilst browsing the net within the niche of building blog traffic, I’m coming across an increasing amount of articles which are, frankly, borderline impossible to comprehend.  I’m sorry, but this is another big ‘no-no’ for me.  Out of the two aspects detailed within this post, bad grammar is probably the number one biggest turn-off for me.

Again, I understand that it’s possible that these types of blogs and websites are written by genuinely nice people whose first language may not be English or American.  Or maybe their grasp of grammar just isn’t that great, period.  Now, I wholly applaud anyone who tries to get their thoughts and ideas ‘out there’ through the medium of blogging, in fact I actively encourage people to start blogging throughout my own blog posts.

But if I chance upon a blog where good grammar is an alien concept, I’m gone in seconds.  Unless the grammar is that bad it’s actually entertaining.  Then I’ll bookmark it for future hilarity.

 

Conclusion

The whole point of this blog post isn’t to insult or offend anyone who happens to be reading it.  If that’s the case, then I sincerely offer my apologies.  I’m trying to point out the fact that, in all my days of surfing the net, I’ve never came across a really successful, high-traffic blog or website which is littered with bad spelling and grammar.  If you have genuine aspirations of making it big in the blogging world, then please make sure that your spelling and grammar are up to scratch.  Or you’ll end up in my Favourites.

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