Do spelling and grammar matter when evaluating content and site quality?

Do spelling and grammar matter when evaluating content and site quality? Blind Five Year Old, SF, CA

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• seo
• grammar
• spelling
• quality

[ShmulikLiebermann]

Press 1111111 and you'll get oink-oink

[Morpherst]

Nice video, but boring t-shirt! :) Please let me know if you need some inputs - I'll even send you a couple, if you promise to wear them :)

[professionalblogger]

Hahah that's funny. I know who Blind 5 Y/O is ha

[IceburgTX]

You can see this in action if you search for something common in Google's "Shopping" section. Then rank by price; something like RAM or whatever, where you will expect to see a lot of tossed up, fly-by-night ecommerce nightmare pages. Loaded with broken English and even sentences that are just lopped off to fit space. It's like the Lorum Ipsum of English.

Anyway, well said. As a copywriter and web project manager, I encourage every client to fine-tune their copy, if they are doing it themselves.

[drakeltheryuujin]

Push 33333 to make it look like he's fondling boobs.

[FmAdvertisingPro]

This should only matter regarding spelling and grammar, but not level of reading. I have 40% of my traffic coming from international readers so I cannot write at the college level. They wouldn't understand big words.

[CraZy675]

roflol, lmfao, bbl, ppl. These words are perfectly acceptable on a blog about IM. yet are not dictionary words.

[wolfgangbrand123]

@Morpherst Come on don't be so hard on him. This is what Geeks wear, seriously! Look at Sergej, same style. That and an Iphone with the wordpress lable on the backside..

[formalsleek]

It is because spelling correctly means the content would be of high quality and so people are more likely to link to it rather than it being from a content creator in india who's English is not 100%

[laszloberndt]

:) Hi from Hungary! :) Thanks for mentioning "hungarian"! :)

[byToniKei]

Sera que naquele notebook esta rodando o Google Chrome OS ou sera apenas um Windows 7 ?

Em relação ao vídeo, muito bacana, e sim ajudou sim!! muito obrigado!!