Spellr.us is a web-based spell check tool that officially launched at last week’s TechCrunch50 conference.  Spellr.us helps you maintain high quality content on your website by allowing you to configure regular scans to detect and report any spelling errors that exist.  This makes it a great service for bloggers, especially those who need to push content out quickly and may miss spelling errors in their posts.  In this post I’ll take you through the basics of setting up your Spellr.us account and scanning your website.

First, go to Spellr.us and register an account.  Once you are logged in you are taken to a control panel where you create a new scan.

Enter the URL of your blog, choose the maximum number of pages to scan, and then choose a scanning frequency.  You can perform a one time only scan if you are just checking a static content site, or you can schedule regular scans as often as hourly depending on how often you post to your blog.

Next choose the language for your scan and any dictionaries you wish to include.  You can also create your own word lists so that non-dictionary words you frequently use in your blog are not detected as errors.

There are lots of other options you can use to tweak your scans even further, such as excluding domain names.

Filter can be used to exclude content that falls within certain DIVs in your site code.  The best use of this for bloggers is to exclude comments, so that spelling mistakes made by your visitors do not show up in reports.

Once you are finished with the options you can start the scan, which is submitted to a queue.

The Spellr.us spider will crawl your site and then the data is turned into a report.

When the report is ready you are presenting with some nice graphs showing you the total number of errors as well as the most common errors.  A few handy features here are the ability to bulk add words to your custom word lists, and the option to subscribe to an RSS feed for the results of scheduled reports.  You are also sent an email with the report results.

At the moment Spellr.us is free and while pricing has not yet been announced the FAQ does say that a free plan for small sites is one of the options that will be available, which puts in within reach of bloggers of any size.

Go check out Spellr.us and let it find your blogging mistakes for you!