Just in case you were worried about how well or poorly this site might rank because of the grammar, no need to. Google’s John Mueller confirmed that he does not believe Google has algorithms that demote websites for using poor or bad grammar.

Google has said this before that spelling and grammar are not ranking factors and that grammar in comments don’t hurt either.

But John Mueller repeated it in a video hangout at the 24:48 mark:

Question: Does grammar affect SEO?

Answer: Not really.

Here is the transcript:

Here are some of the old videos from Matt Cutts on this topic:

I should add that Bing did say poor grammar can hurt your rankings in Bing.

Forum discussion at YouTube.

This post was scheduled to go live today but was written earlier – I am currently offline today.