Authors do this several times for their books. However, many people skip this part of writing blog posts. What could it possibly be? I could say that I will reveal the answer in 9 minutes and have callers guess the answer similar to the Lite FM Radio Station. However, I am going to simply reveal the answer right now in bold letters.
Most bloggers forget to proofread their blog posts.
There are many bloggers who make the mistake of misspelling words. I recently read an article on a very credible blog only to discover towards the end of the blog post that tweets was spelled as “tweeets.” That is a mistake that could have been avoided with a spell check, but since the blogger did not use spell check, readers will notice that mistake. However, there are some mistakes that the spell check does not catch such as run on sentences and words that have been misplaced in the blog post.
A blog is a free book for your readers to read. If the free product does not deliver the way it should, people will be less likely to buy your products. The logic behind this is that if the free product does not deliver, the paid product probably won’t deliver either.
Proofreading a blog post will probably take up 5 minutes of your time, and really lengthy blog posts can take gasp 10 minutes of your time. However, by proofreading your blog posts, you will be able to provide your readers with better blog posts, and you will see the rewards of your hard work as you see your sales go up.
Proofreading your blog posts will allow you to see the mistakes. If you wrote 99 flawless blog posts, but one of your blog posts is flawed, then the proofreading was worth it. What are your thoughts on proofreading blog posts? Please share your thoughts below.
I recently wrote a blog post about common grammar mistakes I notice in other peoples’ blogs. Little did I know, there were mistakes in it that someone on Facebook eventually pointed out to me. I was pretty distraught because I had looked over my post at least five times before publishing it. Just goes to show that some people can’t see their own mistakes and getting another set of eyes to look over it works wonders.
Getting another set of eyes to review your content does work wonders because they are neutral to your content while we tend to think our content is the best content on the web. If you still find yourself proofreading alone, it’s not a matter of how many times you proofread but how slowly you proofread. The slower the better.
So true! A blog post may cover an interesting topic, but typos and grammatical errors can be a real turnoff. That being said, sometimes it takes more than one proofread to catch all of your mistakes.
I proofread all of my blog posts at least once and then put them through WordPress’ spell check system just to make sure I didn’t make any mistakes. It’s better to be extra cautious than sorry about it later.
I totally agree and I am quite guilty of this. Thanks Marc.
My pleasure. I was guilty of this mistake when I first started my blog. Then, I found spelling errors in various blog posts, and that made me proofread all of my blog posts. Luckily, this happened when I was just starting out, so not many people caught the spelling errors.
Yes, it can be really annoying to read misspelled blog
I completely agree. Since there is a lot of valuable content on the web, we expect perfection. Seeing a word spelled incorectly creates a lot of attention and draws people away from the rest of the content (see what I did there).
I agree, very true. It also makes those who do not profreed lose credibility.
Gopi, I couldn’t agree more.