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Word Documents Insert Bad Code Into Blog PostsWriting by Nick on Wednesday, 11 of July , 2007 at 2:51 pm

Do you write your blog posts in Word and copy/paste into WordPress or another blogging software? You shouldn’t and I’ll tell you why.

All MicroSoft products insert superfluous code that can mess with your browser or website html. It can jack things up in a hurry.

Here’s an example of the type of code that Word can insert into your blog posts without you ever even knowing:

Windows has come a long way in the recent years. (st1 :place)Vista(/st1) has been an influence on the tech industry all over the globe. There are many changes that come with Windows Vista. This include the look and feel of it, and the actual mechanics. Some have been really excited about the changes and others are convinced that Windows Vista is just plain evil.
(p :p) (/o)(/p)
(p of what people think,(/p)
(p :p) (/o)(/p)

I’ve replaced all the < 's and >’s with (’s and )’s so that they would be visible to you. Otherwise, they would not appear on your page and stay in the background, pretending to be valuable code when, in reality, they are only impostors.

See the p class code? and o colon p’s? They’re useless. They mean absolutely nothing. They’re also MicroSoft. WordPress doesn’t like them. Why should it? They’re impostors and the search engines will likely not crawl them. They may not even crawl these pages at all.

If you like to write your blog posts in another document and copy/paste into WordPress I’d encourage you to find another method. If you want to spell check your blog posts then download Mozilla Firefox for free. You can do that here. Firefox will spell check all of your blog posts as you write them in WordPress.

If you don’t want to download Firefox and you use WordPress, you can write your posts in WordPress then copy them into Word and perform your spell check there. Just don’t copy/paste back into WordPress. Change the spelling of any misspelled words manually. This one step alone could mean the difference between getting your WordPress blog crawled or not.

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