Companies are cashing in on a new type of advertising that uses common Spelling mistakes to bring users to their sites or adds with search engines like Google.
After reading a this story it appears that bloggers are doing this too. So I ask this, is sacrificing linguistics and readability just to get page views from Google. Do those hits even matter if they look at your webpage, see all kinds of spelling mistakes, and decide not to continue reading, don't bookmark your page or delete their internet history to erase the sheer memory of your website? Anyway, without the exaggerations, what do you think matters most to your website; simply page view counts that occur by mistake, or dedicated viewers that will come back to a spelling error free webpage? Considering that you may even lose visitors that have your page in their favorites or are frequent viewers is it worth it? It's a personal preference really, you just have to decide what's more important, but to me, it's not the page views. If people visit your site, but stop reading, is your message getting out there? Websites are designed to give and relay information in a communal way; this gives what you have to say on your blog notice. However, if this attention is only accidental and no one reads it, will it have given your message to the world?