Spelling Mistakes: A Blogger’s Nightmare!
Who doesn’t make mistakes right? I sure do and I am sure that you have seen mistakes on other blogs too. Usually when you make a post on your blog, its a good idea to go back and review the post to make sure that you haven’t made any mistakes not only spelling mistakes but mistakes that could make your sentences sound odd. A few weeks ago JohnChow had released an eBook about making money online and he mentioned about how he used to re-read his posts 2-3 times before he would post them to make sure there were no spelling mistakes or anything of that sort. Now, I’m not saying that I don’t make mistakes because I am sure everyone does but, ever since reading his book I have noticed that he makes quite a few spelling mistakes and mostly its grammatical mistakes. Obviously, its not intentional and maybe he just overlooks it because mostly its grammatical.
I have emailed him a few times if I come across something and I have told him that I read the ebook section on proof reading. I try to be error free on my blog to make sure that I can get my point across in the way I intended it. I don’t want people to think that I am attacking him or anything, because I’m not but, I just wanted to point out that everyone makes mistakes and its good to proofread to be sure that you haven’t missed any type of spelling or grammatical mistakes.
For that matter, I read Jane May’s blog, Online Opportunity or even Ms. Danielle’s blog and there has never been an occasion where I have noticed a mistake as such. What you should know is that if you are a startup blog and not someone as well established as JohnChow, that making several small mistakes could cost you because your readers may not like the idea of having to diagnose your writing. Your readers just want to read your content in a manner where they understand your point and retain certain points in your post, not because they have to think about what you meant by something. In the end, what I wanted to say is that its a good idea to read your posts 1-2 times before posting it. What I usually do is that I type a post and save it, then I preview the post in my browser and read it about twice to see if there were any spelling, grammatical or code mistakes. To give you an example of what I am talking about, lets see if you can find the mistake in this phrase from the JC Blog.
If you’re looking at the numbers, you maybe thinking that your chances of winning isn’t so great.
Mistake : “that your chances of winning aren’t so great”
The same mistake of using aren’t instead of isn’t is seen again in the same post.
Right now, they have only 33 votes so your chances of winning isn’t too bad
One last one,
John Chow dot Com and BlueFur web hosting are please to bring you another evil blog contest.
Mistake: it should be “are pleased to…”
As you can see, these are small mistakes and I don’t want people to think that I am going after JohnChow because if you have read some of my other posts, you will see that I’m quite a fan! Anyway, I try to keep mistakes to a low but if you ever do spot something that just makes a sentence sound odd, be sure to email me and you shall be given a link back in return. I have to tell you though, that missing a comma or apostrophe doesn’t really count as a sentence changing mistake! I hope this post helps and I wanted to get your feedback on blogger spelling mistakes.
Update: I didn’t mean to pick on JohnChow.com, because everyone makes mistakes. I just used him as an example because being as popular as he is most of you have heard about him by now. I am sure that if you look over some of my posts that you may find similar mistakes! All that means is that I have to proofread a bit more!
this is a great post. personally i also have a problem with grammatical errors, but i try not to pass judgment because of them. i’ve seen a lot of errors on JC’s site as well but i’m sort of an exception. all of my friends know i can catch a typo from a mile away. i’ve even caught a typo on my local atm machine! seriously! they spelled “than” like “then.” “more then ten dollars…” or something. this is the product of being the daughter of a grade school teacher, that’s definitely for sure
but i never capitalize in comments or emails, not sure why… i challenge you to find an obvious typo on my site and if you do i’ll give you a site review 
For a site review, I guess I’m going to have to put my search goggles on! I didn’t want to pass judgment either but I wanted to get a topic out of it. I mentioned in the post that I mess up on my spelling and grammar too so I wanted to expand upon the idea of proofreading content before publishing!