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Check Blog Grammar Before Publish Online

  • Writer: Rohan Singh
    Rohan Singh
  • May 21
  • 3 min read


Most valuable people, websites or blogs will either link, or not link to your content — depending on the quality of its grammar and punctuation: Poor grammar and punctuation will not inspire confidence in readers. How many people would trust a banking website that states: We ‘is' the best banking platform for you? It's highly probable that nobody would. Truth is that most people would look elsewhere and advise others to do the same. Such a vote of no confidence can impact web traffic negatively. There are a lot of common grammatical errors out there which some reputable sites are guilty of; here are some common ones:


Using are when giving information about one (singular) brand. The name of one brand should be followed by is/has, not are/have. For example, XYZ is… and XYZ has…. You might have/may noticed that some websites, especially the ones that have brands (or products) ending with an s, often incorrectly use are and have as in XYZ are… and XYZ have…. Keep your eyes open to these types of grammatical errors.


Using then instead of than, and vice-versa. For several years and running, many people on social media have gotten used to correcting the erroneous use of the words: your and you are. The same goes with there, their and they are. One big but common mistake nowadays is to write: you are business will grow instead of your business will grow. Auto Parts SEO Agency India, Real Estate SEO Agency India, Hotel SEO Company India, website design India.


Using active voice, rather than passive voice. Although using passive voice might not be grammatically incorrect, especially when it is not littered all over content, it's still not widely used, accepted or supported by high-authority persons, websites, publishers or brands. The active voice is mostly used, and should be present in active sentences, and predominant in contents when subjects act (using verbs) on objects. For example, in the sentence: the writer produced the content, we will agree that the writer is the subject, and the verb is produced, while the object is the content. Sentences with a passive voice would switch this around and state: the content was produced by the writer. Most authoritative brands tend to go with the active voice rather than the passive. It's advisable we get used to this if we have not done so.


You might be asking: what do links have to do with using proper grammar and spelling? Well, the fact is that most leading websites will not link to your content (no matter how original and informative it is) if you do not use correct grammar that follows widely-used grammar rules. Leading websites, which are ranked higher on search engines, will only link to your content if it adheres to the type of English grammar, punctuation and spelling rules that they know.


Imagine writing a mind-blowing article that attracts the attention of high-ranking websites like The Guardian and The Huffington Post, and they assess your site in order to link to it, but only decide later, that because of poor English language use, incorrect grammar, punctuation and spelling, they wo not recommend your site to their readers. This would surely halt the rise of your brand, you did miss out on quality links that could, in due time, move you higher up search engines rankings. This is one compelling reason why you should spend a little more time to crosscheck whether your grammar and punctuation are correct.

 
 
 

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