Have you ever been on someone’s blog and they seemed to have some amazing content? Everything is in place; more words than ads, it’s not white writing on a black background or any outrageous colors.

It’s just a good blog.

You start to read and as you get further down, you notice more spelling and grammar errors than a 5 year-old’s first spelling test.

I don’t know if you noticed, but when there is a spelling error, you catch it almost immediately. You can see them for reasons that I’ll disclose below.

This post will show you methods I use for my blog that have tremendously cut down on my spelling and grammar errors. You’re talking about a guy that used 3 words in 1 and didn’t think anything of it. You’ll see what I mean.

Some are automatic while a few will take a little commitment from you. Just remember that when readers see spelling and grammar errors, they may for a quick second (or for the whole blog post), think they’re smarter than you; or is that just crazy old me?

Make sure you’re using the latest WordPress

If you haven’t already, make sure you update to the latest WordPress. I think it’s 3.1 or something but the new WordPress has built-in spelling and grammar checker that kicks in just before you publish a post. It will mention that you have spelling and grammar errors and to fix them, hit the cancel button.

That feature alone has made me smarter than most of my readers; it’s a joke people. Best part about WordPress’ spelling and grammar checker is it is customized for the actual user (just incase you have or plan to have multiple bloggers). Check yours out at users > your profile.

If you like a word like “Dagonit” and WP keeps telling you it’s spelled wrong, you can right-click and “ignore always”. You’ll never hear a peep out of WP again.

Read thoroughly before and after posting

This is something you should be doing anyway but truth be told, I didn’t in my beginning days. I would write a post and act as if I had just won the National Spelling Bee the day before.

After you hit that publish button, it’s too late to save your “smartness” (correct errors) in your RSS feed; this also goes for an RSS broadcast which I’ll speak on shortly. RSS is like Vegas; what happens in RSS, stays in RSS. As far as I know, you can’t edit RSS but correct me if I’m wrong.

If you have incorporated the RSS broadcast feature into your online business (which works great with Aweber), then you should be on your own list and get your broadcasts and should be the first to open them. I don’t know about you but I get excited every time I see my broadcast message sitting in my inbox. I’m always guaranteed to get at least 1 unique open…

Use spelling and grammar checking software

With ton’s of different tools out there for to help your internet experience, I’m sure there is something to help you with your spelling.

What I use that helps tremendously is a Macbook and Safari. Now I don’t know about any other browsers (you’re welcome to test them out) but Safari has a built-in feature that corrects your spelling automatically. You know one word I just can’t get right is guarantee. I spelled it wrong just now and Safari corrected it for me.

I heard a joke once if you come across someone who spells guarantee wrong in a sales pitch, DON’T TRUST THEM. Every since then, that has been a huge focus of mines. I probably account for 25% of the searches in Google on how to spell guarantee.

Have someone else read it

Now this is something that helps out a lot. I have people write me and tell me they don’t mean to hurt my feelings but they found a spelling or grammar error. BRING IT! I welcome them. Once my blog becomes a top-level blog, I’m going to give away prizes for catching spelling and grammar errors.

This someone else can be a friend, family member, colleague or another blogger. You don’t want your readers constantly telling you that you have spelling and grammar errors but a thousand eyeballs is better than 2.

If you check out Fiverr, you can find people who will proofread your article for $5.

The reason you may want to have someone else read it is because they don’t know what you’ve typed. As you type a blog, your mind kind of records it and you get use to what you see in front of you. You know what you typed basically. This will have you skipping over spelling and grammar errors like crazy.

eirs, ere and ‘re

This had to be my toughest battle yet in my blogging career. Remember above when I said I’d use 3 words as 1? Well this is what I was referring to.

Their, There and They’re (and also your and you’re)

When I wrote my first book, I had a friend proofread it for me. I love her because she keeps it real and boy did she come through this time.

When she told me I had spelling and grammar errors, I thought it was a few. Boy was I wrong. Ended up nearly rewriting the entire book. I used those words wrong 99% of the time they were used. She explained to me just what they meant and how to use them.

Now, I’m a sniper for just those words. Every single time I type them on anything, I think twice on if I’m using them correctly. That helped me out tremendously.

I’ve never been huge (I sucked) on all the verb and noun stuff. I forgot them the minute they stopped teaching it. Here’s how I distinguish the meanings:

• There: Pointing to something; ex. There goes the that boy again
• Theirs: Something owned or in possession. of; ex. That money is theirs to keep.
• They’re: Short for They are; ex. They’re going to the store

In conclusion

I hope you found this post helpful. I sure this enjoy writing this one. I’m on my balcony looking out at the world. Funny thing just happened; a hawk just flew down and grabbed something off the tree. Scared the crap out of me. LOL. Never been scared so bad this early in the morning.

Anyway, what methods do you use that help you cut down on spelling and grammar errors? I would love to hear what you have to say. I’m always trying to improve on something; especially my grammar because I make a living off of writing.

Now please know that we are all human and we still make mistakes. Being perfect is not the goal but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t strive for perfection; is that one of those oxymorons? You know what I mean.

Hey as always, I want to thank you for reading because without you, my blog is nothing. Please comment and share because that would help me out alot.

You have a great day; a better one than yesterday; and stop writing with those dog paws.

And here’s that funny video I promised. I saw it on another blog and sense this post is sorta about dogs, I figured, I’d throw it on here. Enjoy!

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Dennis Marshall – has written 59 posts on .

Dennis Marshall aka the SEO Menace, is a totally cool up and coming entrepreneur dedicated to living life mentally, financially and spiritually free. He started blogging not having a clue where he was going with it but now, here he is, blogging for dollars, taking names and loving every single minute of it. You can follow him (me) on twitter @Dennis_Knows and follow this blog @iblog4dollars. Also, if you're new to blogging, check out the iBlog4Dollars Academy (coming soon..). You will not regret it!