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Spell Check a Complete Website

March 19, 2012

Checking spelling is the curse of every website owner’s existence. Before launching, you should always check your site for spelling errors. The reason? Websites can be huge. Even today’s smallest websites can consist of dozens of pages. Fortunately, I’ll share a way to spell check your web site that will save a great deal of time.
Spelling errors can make their way into your website at any place in the development process. If your website is created using multiple 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. Anytime changes are made to your site after it’s published, you should recheck it for errors.
Are spelling errors really a big deal? They are because they can impact how your visitors percieve your website. If you are selling a product, then the people who visit your site are less likely to become customers. If you’re a content publisher, visitors will trust your website less. There have been a number of studies published that prove that website spelling mistakes collectively cost web sites billions of dollars a year in lost revenue.
Even Matt Cutts has said that spelling mistakes can negatively affect websit ranking. An old SEO technique was to purposely place common misspellings on their pages, in an effort to to rank well when a search query would have a spelling mistake in it. But now thanks to Google autocorrecting search queries this tactic has no benefit. 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 spell checking websites easy to do. Enter your site’s URL and let InSite do the rest. InSite will automatically discover the pages on your site and spell check them as they’re found. It makes spell checking virtually any website fast and easy. Another nice benefit of InSite is that it runs on your PC, so there’s nothing to install on your web server. Install it on your PC like any other Windows application and run.
I think one of the nicest things about InSite is that it goes beyond spell checking just the “visible” text on your website. 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. There’s nothing worse than having spelling mistakes in your search results.
In addition to spell checking, InSite also does website link checking, word counting, keyword density analysis and more. So what are you waiting for? Download a free trial copy of InSite today and see it for yourself. 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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