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Do You Make These Mistakes When You Write?
A personal note to begin with: I haven’t been posting much this last month because I’ve been finding a new house to live in and now furnishing it and unpacking. The dust is starting to settle, but I’m going offline for about two weeks while setting up a decent internet connection, rather than limping along on Virgin Mobile Broadband (which really sucks, by the way).
When you make spelling/grammar mistakes on your website, you risk annoying your visitors (at least the ones like me who actually care about spelling and grammar). You lose credibility. And that results in lost sales when your prospects click away and go elsewhere.
Here is a great set of tips from Copyblogger…
Do You Make These Mistakes When You Write? | Copyblogger
And just for fun, here is a paragraph that makes all those mistakes. Can you spot them?
You and myself both don’t want to loose credibility online. Your website should of been different than other peoples. If I could of, I would of written my copy, two new posts and hired an editor, e.g. someone who proofread’s, last weekend.
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Hey! Been wondering where you’ve been
Good reminder on the spelling/grammar mistakes, although for me I’m usually pretty good with that. I have worked for a book publisher doing editing, plus I’m just sort of compulsive about that kind of thing! (of course there will be spelling mistakes in this comment now that I say that)
Get back online (permanently) soon Trisha!
Eric
on July 15th, 2008 at 4:27 am
I plan on getting back online again as soon as I can.
Nothing like writing a post on spelling/grammar to make you paranoid about the next post you write.
Trisha Cupra
on July 15th, 2008 at 4:48 am