If you're selling a product or service online and your website is littered with spelling and grammar mistakes you're losing sales. Plain and simple. You don't need a masters degree in English but poor spelling puts people off. From a visitors point of view if you couldn't be bothered spellchecking your website then how good can your product really be?

Here's 4 tips for proofreading your website.

1. Use a spellchecker. Every word processor has one. If you don't have a spellcheker then get one.

2. Proofread anything you write from bottom to top. You'll spot more mistakes that way.

3. Print out important documents and edit them with a pen. Again read from bottom to top when doing so.

4. When you've written an important article put it away for 24 hours. Proofreading it next day gives you a fresh perspective on your own writing and I guarantee that you'll make improvements on your original text.

Sin #6 Flashing And Spinning Graphic Elements Banners or logos that flash, spin, fade in and out or perform any other gimmick are a major No No. Don't use them.

Before I made a few changes I used to get about 2,500 spam EVERY DAY! Now I only get about 250. Still a lot, but only 10% of what I used to get.

Learning how to do this for your own website, and your clients' websites, will make you a hero in everyone's eyes.

So let's talk about some of things you can do to cut back on your spam.

One of things I did to reduce my spam was to remove "Catch All" setting on my web hosting company. A "Catch All" does just that. It catches all e-mail sent to your domain name, in my case that would be Anything@CreativeCauldron.com, which would include JeffColburn@CreativeCauldron.com, Giggles@CreativeCauldron.com, PinkElephants@CreativeCauldron.com and so on. Any e-mail address that ended with @CreativeCauldron.com was grabbed by my hosting company's e-mail program and sent to me.

When you remove "Catch All," you need to tell e-mail program what e-mail addresses to send to you. Many people just use Info@DomainName.com. You can add more whenever you want, but more e-mail address you have more spam you will receive. No longer receiving 2,250 e-mails a day really helped my sanity and reduced my stress levels.

To reduce my spam even more, I set up filters in my e-mail program. These filters automatically move any e-mails into delete folder that meet criteria I set. I can then quickly scan this folder to see if something wound up in there that I really want to read. Some of words I set up in filters include various body parts, mortgage, meds, and other similar words. I actually have over 50 words in filters, with new ones being added all time. Be careful what you use for filters though. Maybe you've been getting spam about growing some part of your body. You could put "grow" in a filter, but if you run a gardening website you may have people sending you legitimate e-mails about growing plants. With "grow" as one of your filters, then these legitimate e-mails would go to your delete folder. Along these same lines, many filters will prevent you from receiving ezines you have subscribed to, some kind of ads you want and more. So be careful.