Free Text Cleaner for Better Search Results
The takeaway:
If you are copying and pasting content from Microsoft Word into your website, use this FREE text cleaner (below) to clean your text. (takes seconds)
Why is this important?
Because copying and pasting directly from MS Word can leave nasty little characters that:
1) Look freaky to your viewers
2) Prevent Google from giving you great results
Although I wrote about cleaning your text a while back I continue to notice that many folks are struggling with having weird characters appear in their websites due to Microsoft formatting madness. (not to mention that in the background Google is prevented from seeing your content) So I’m posting our TEXT CLEANER directly in this article:
This text cleaner will clean the following nasty characters when copying and pasting from a Microsoft® Word document, into your website:
“Double Quotes” | ‘Single quotes’ | Ellipsis … | em-dash — | trademark ™ | registration trademark ®
For those folks who are using WordPress to publish content, there's already an awesome plain text converter built right in. Here's a post illustrating how to use WordPress' Paste as Plain Text Function
Do you need other characters added to the cleaner? Just ask below in the comments and we’ll make it happen. Check out other resources on the Daveworks site
About the Author
Dave Naves, President of Daveworks Web Development
Dave has over 20 years experience in the Internet industry. Some of his larger projects have included Ticketmaster.com, Guess.com, Citysearch.com and DisneyChannel.com, to name a few. He's passionate about getting Small Business America in to the "Big Game" of SEO and ecommerce, so he founded LocalMarketplace.com™ to do just that.
Dave holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Business Administration, plays drums, is an avid fly fisherman and enjoys using his general contractors license from time to time.
You can typically find him making noise out on Google+, Twitter and Facebook.
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