Never, and I mean NEVER, underestimate the importance of proofreading!  Why do I say this?  Well, I've just experienced the results of poor proofreading first hand, but fortunately in a very amusing way.

If you've read any of my other posts, you'll know that I just created a rather ugly placeholder page for my future site, www.VirtualKnitter.com.  I've actually already updated the page several times, adding a link back to this blog, updating with some key info about subscribing to my e-mail updates, and adding a meta description for search engines.  It's that last one - the meta description - where I had a little trouble.

You see, I didn't proof the meta description.  Instead, I only proofread what actually appears on the live page, using a web browser.  Silly me - should have gone back to the actual code to proofread too.  Imagine my surprise today, when I checked again to see if Google had indexed the page, and saw this:




Do you see the error?  Yup - my site is going to be a "turkey" resource!  For those of you who don't know, the meta description is what gets listed by the search engines as the description of your site.  And I have a "Turkey" solution - YIKES!  That's supposed to say "turnkey" if you hadn't figured it out.  And the change has been made to my code, so as soon as the site page gets crawled again, it should get corrected, but for now, I'm the turkey.  Oh well.  It's not like a million people are going to be finding the site via Google at this time anyway, but even so, how embarrassing!

Just to let you know, I'm still collecting comments and suggestions on what to include at the Virtual Knitter.  Please visit my earlier entry called "www.VirtualKnitter.com and make a comment to get an entry into the prize drawing for a skein of Noro Kureyon Sock.  I'd love to read your ideas!

Happy Knitting!