Spelling & grammar

Spelling & grammar

Configuration > Content > Spelling & Grammar

The SEO Spider is able to perform a spelling and grammar check on HTML pages in a crawl. Other content types are currently not supported, but might be in the future.

The spelling and and grammar checks are disabled by default and need to be enabled for spelling and grammar errors to be displayed in the ‘Content’ tab, and corresponding ‘Spelling Errors’ and ‘Grammar Errors’ filters.

The spelling and grammar feature will auto identify the language used on a page (via the HTML language attribute), but also allow you to manually select language where required within the configuration.

It supports 39 languages, which include –

• Arabic
• Asturian
• Belarusian
• Breton
• Catalan
• Chinese
• Danish
• Dutch
• English (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, USA, UK)
• French
• Galician
• German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland)
• Greek
• Italian
• Japanese
• Khmer
• Persian (Afghanistan, Iran)
• Polish
• Portuguese (Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, Portgual)
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovak
• Solvenian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Tagalog
• Tamil
• Ukranian

Please see our FAQ if you’d like to see a new language supported for spelling and grammar.

The lower window ‘Spelling & Grammar Details’ tab shows the error, type (spelling or grammar), detail, and provides a suggestion to correct the issue. The right hand-side of the details tab also show a visual of the text from the page and errors identified.

The right-hand pane ‘Spelling & Grammar’ tab displays the top 100 unique errors discovered and the number of URLs it affects. This can be helpful for finding errors across templates, and for building your dictionary or ignore list. You can right click and choose to ‘Ignore grammar rule’, ‘Ignore All’, or ‘Add to Dictionary’ where relevant.

Spelling & Grammar Configurations

The ‘grammar rules’ configuration allows you to enable and disable specific grammar rules used. You’re able to right click and ‘Ignore grammar rule’ on specific grammar issues identified during a crawl.

The ‘Ignore’ configuration allows you to ignore a list of words for a crawl. This is only for a specific crawl, and not remembered accross all crawls. You’re able to right click and ‘Ignore All’ on spelling errors discovered during a crawl.

The ‘dictionary’ allows you to ignore a list of words for every crawl performed. This list is stored against the relevant dictionary, and remembered for all crawls performed. Words can be added and removed at anytime for each dictionary. You’re able to right click and ‘Add to Dictionary’ on spelling errors identified in a crawl.

The content area used for spelling and grammar can be adjusted via ‘Configuration > Content > Area’. You’re able to add a list of HTML elements, classes or ID’s to exclude or include for the content analysed.

Grammar rules, ignore words, dictionary and content area settings used in the analysis can all be updated post crawl (or when paused) and the spelling and grammar checks can be re-run to refine the results, without the need for re-crawling.