SpellChecker

Many subscriptions include the SpellChecker feature.

The SpellChecker does as it says.  It is, however, different in a few ways from the spell checking capabilities of the tools you use to check your content as you create it.

From a purely content point of view then it acts as a final confirmation that your content is correct as it actually appears on your website.  The main difference is that it will check all "viewable" text that the browser can see.  So it will check all of your tags and Metadata as well as the content.  Incorrectly spelt Metadata wont get too many hits from a search engine.

You can create your own custom.dic, which can even be created by uploading your existing custom.dic from something like Word.  We can add dictionaries from a range of dictionaries we have available.  And will also try and locate industry specific dictionaries on request.  And selecting which dictionaries to use during testing is a simple configuration option of selecting tick boxes.

If we highlight words that are, in fact, correct then adding words is simply a matter of clicking on the ADD button next to the word and they are added to your custom.dic

We also analyse the website to give you statistics like :

  • Page with most suspect spellings
  • Most frequent suspect words
  • Pages with most words on them.

However, possibly the most powerful option is the Filter feature.

This allows you to create a Filter containing words and phrases that you want to locate on your website.

So:-

  • if you were running a promotion that's now expired you can locate all references to it on your website so you can update or remove it.
  • if key personnel changes have occurred you can filter on the name(s) and update or remove any references to them

There are a whole range of varying scenarios where this will prove very useful.

The report will identify the number of occurrences of each entry in the filter.  Clicking on an entry will take you to a list of pages where it occurs along with the line number in the code to make it even easier to locate.

Once you're happy that you've completed the update/removal you can update the Filter to remove that entry.

Further info on how to use the SpellChecker can be found at http://www.sitemorse.com/d/guides/Spellcheck_Guide.pdf

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