News just in that Spellr.us ^[1], the website spell-checking service created by Sydney-based digital media company Melon Media ^[2], cast aside its beta training wheels this afternoon and launched to the public.

I covered ^[3] spellr.us last year when the service launched in private beta. (Spellr.us founder Kevin Garber invited Anthill to be a guinea pig.) The service, which held great promise back then, has been entirely rebuilt, tested and is now ready for the big time.

Pricing starts from a basic “Meerkat” free plan (five scans per month, website of up to 20 pages, one custom dictionary) through to the heavy duty “Elephant” plan at $276/month (unlimited monthly scans, unlimited sites up to 15,000 pages, schedules, RSS, multiple custom dictionaries).

Plans embedded below.

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Garber has also confirmed that the service will soon feature an optional link checking feature, which can identify dead links within a site (the existence of which hurts the site’s page rank on Google).

Head on over ^[5] and give it a spin. You can enter a url on the home page and scan the first 100 pages without even signing up. But after seeing the results, you’ll want to.