Brian Clark at Copyblogger wrote an awesome post about the five simple grammatical errors people typically make when writing:

1. Your vs. You're
2. It's vs. Its
3. There vs. Their
4. Affect vs. Effect
5. The Dangling participle

His post was so popular that 321 comments have been posted and I found interesting food for thought in those comments.

Andrew Cavanaugh , an online freelance copywriter, commented:

I think you're barking up the wrong tree with this post.

Its really not you're problem when your writing a blog to get the affect you want.

In fact you can effect you're readers quite affectively without worrying at all about gramma. And speling.

There fantastic experience on you're blog will not be hampered by pore writing.

Will it?

I've have heard many say that worrying about grammar and spelling in a blog post isn't as important as the thought being communicated and yet how annoying is Andrew's example. It detracts from the message. Do we forget that how we communicate our message tells a story about our brand and our work product as much as what we communicate?

What do you think? If you visit a site and find miss-spellings and grammar errors do you continue to visit them?

Deborah Chaddock Brown
Writer