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started by Terrell Lynch on 17 Mar 12
  • Terrell Lynch
     
    Checking a website for spelling mistakes is a frustrating but arduous job that every web developer hates. Before publishing, you should always spell check your website. The reason? Websites are much more complex than a simple document. Even today's smallest websites can consist of hundreds of webpages. Some development tools provide integrated spell checking, but hardly ever is this sufficient.
    Spelling mistakes can make their way into your website at any point in the website lifecycle. If your website is created using several tools, some may support spell checking, some may not. If you're site is powered by a CMS, then you may have multiple contributors. More contributors means a higher likelyhood for spelling errors. Content added after your website goes public also may not be spell checked.
    Why are spelling mistakes such a issue? Spelling mistakes have a huge impact on the perception of your website. If you are selling a product, then visitors to your site are less likely to buy. Likewise, if you're a content publisher, visitors to your website will have less trust in your website. Online, you'll find lots of examples that show a correlation between website quality, perception and revenue.
    As you may know, Matt Cutts has even touched the subject, saying that spelling mistakes on a website could have a negative impact on rankings. In the past some websites would purposely place common misspellings on their pages, in an effort to to rank well when a searcher misspelled their search. Because almost every search engine fixes search queries this tactic no longer works. In fact, Google may penalize your website because it shows a lack of quality in your content.
    Fortunately there's help. InSite by Inspyder Software makes check websites for spelling mistakes a simple task again. Just enter your website URL and click the go button. InSite will automatically discover the pages on your site and begin spell checking them as they're found. It makes spell checking virtually any website quick, regardless of the size of your website. Another nice thing about InSite is that it runs on your PC, so there's nothing to configure on your webserver. Install it on your PC like any other Windows application and run.
    I think one of the nicest things about it goes deeper than you could by just copy and pasting each page into Word. InSite spell checks the HTML page titles, "alt" attributes and meta tags. This content is not normally visible when you browse your website, but it often shows up in the search results. What could be more embarrassing than a type-o in the search result you worked hard to rank for?
    In addition to spell checking, InSite also does website link checking, word counting, keyword density analysis and more. I highly recommend you try InSite for yourself. You'll quickly see how much time this amazing tool will save you. The free trial has a limit of checking 25 pages, but I think you'll see that InSite is a tool you'll wonder how you ever lived without.

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