Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Holt Uncensored : guilty of keyword stuffing

Let's put aside the obnoxious content of Ms. Pat Hold's <title> tag, and just take for a moment her very informative and relevant article The Ten Mistakes.
...the following is a list I'll be referring to people *before* they submit anything in writing to anybody (me, agent, publisher, your mom, your boss). From email messages and front-page news in the New York Times to published books and magazine articles, the 10 ouchies listed here crop up everywhere. They're so pernicious that even respected Internet columnists are not immune.
I'm a huge fan of good grammar, enormously huge. I even take the extra time to put correct grammar into text messages, which is borderline obsessive. Writing is all about communicating effectively, not just efficiently. Why leave the interpretation up to chance, or worse - up to the opinion of someone who knows grammar better than you do?

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