Does Spelling and Grammar Effect SEO?
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I have heard conflicting reports on this, so I wanted to double check. Will poorly written posts and articles affect my rankings in SEO regards. I'm just unsure because on some sites i'v been working on recently I have seen some drops thanks.
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Thank you!
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Normally I wouldn't bother with this correction but since it's highly relevant here, it's "affect SEO" not "effect SEO".
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Yes, but it's grammatically correct crap...
But it is true that someone who has difficulty writing with proper grammar and spelling is going to have a harder time expressing himself, and so the content's overall quality is likely to be concomitantly lower. Proofreading doesn't provide revision for logic and depth.
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In a new Webmaster help video from Google, Matt Cutts reveals that [...] Pages and websites with a higher reputation within Google tended to have better spelling.
If your content is not very good but you hire a proofreader to clean up the spelling that will have about the same results as dipping crap in chocolate.
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Here's Matt Cutts speaking directly to this question: http://www.get.uk.com/page.php?article=1724&name=Better+Spelling+Equals+Better+Search+Results+%5BGOOGLE%5D
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Poorly written content generally doesn't get read and only gets posted on low quality sites.
If no one is going to read your article other than a googlebot then what kind of site is going to post it and why would you bother writing it? If the answer to this is so that you can create a link to your website with the intention of changing your search engine rankings then this is the wrong way to go about it.
Post-Penguin - Crappy content and spammy links are suicide.
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I would say it does effect it
I would say spelling errors would effect time on site which would effect rankings. Other problems will effect the serps which may look spammy to potential readers.
These errors are easy to fix and the efforts would be easy to get ROI.
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