Correct me if I am wrong, your content should be spelling error free. If thats the case, forums which are highly user generated content dependent will have the most spelling mistakes. Wat abt it then, just leave it, or ask people to use proper grammer??
I think you're wrong, i personally love it when people spell crap wrong. Tons of people spell queries incorrectly when searching. It lets your site come up first in the SE's when they mispell there query.
I suppose if people regularly misspell keywords your chances of ranking could be lower but trying to tell everyone on a forum to spell properly would be an impossibile task. Maybe, if you spot particular words that are important to you that get regularly misspelled you could put the mistake in the word filter and have it replace it with the proper spelling.
I even made en experiment long time ago, i wrote an article in a 100% error free english, and the same article i rewritten with plenty with errors. To my surprise i was getting more hits from search engines to the page with errors.
I don't get more searches to mispellings, but I do get a decent amount, so I leave them I try to plan PPC campaigns around mispellings, but that doesn't work well
Having spelling mistakes isn't the way to impress your visitors..yes you may get quite a bit of traffic due to the typos in the early months but once you have a settled user base, ensure that you do not make such errors.
yes it won't impress visitors & won't look professional. Now if you have the odd spelling error, I guess it's ok.
I wouldn't doubt if Google's system can detect a site's forum, guest book, or comment form and excuse those sections from spelling mistakes.
MIspeeling is great for SEO. I can't tell you how many things I'm listed in the top 10 for my spelling errors...all were inadvertant too!
Most Google searches do not get spelled right as well as a lot of people use the “address bar†and take there chances in general of the spelling. I find parking domains with these mistakes a nice side income.
If you want your site to look professional and worth looking into, then get your spelling right! If you want it to look shoddy and amateur, with deliberate misspellings, go for it. The people you really want to reach are then likely to show up at your site, read the first few spelling and grammar errors, and conclude, "What can this guy/gal tell me, if he/she can't even spell?" Think about your visitors and how you want to impress them.