Tag Clouds: What are Tag Clouds?

Paula Jo
#1. November 12th, 2009, at 9:55 PM.

You taught me something I didn’t know yet how that works and what those tag clouds are for. I don’t own a blog myself and I’m fairly new to pretty much everything about webdesign and or blogs but have seen those tag clouds occasionally while surfing the web and was always wondering if it is just a design idea. Thanks for the lesson. I will surely use cloud tags for my own blog someday.
(I have read your commentators guidelines and even I don’t owe an own blog yet I wanted to say Thank you)

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#2. November 13th, 2009, at 12:20 AM.

Is there another style that could be used as tag clouds?
Thank you for sharing this I never thought how important the tag cloud is. I thought it was only a design on the homepage of the site and I’m not much particular on the keyword research but on what you share now I know how to use tag clouds.

SEO wizz
#3. November 13th, 2009, at 12:19 PM.

I have to be honest I have never really seen any direct ‘SEO’ benefits from using tag clouds. Also Google have now declared that repetative anchor links to internal pages may be devalued.

chandan@work at home
#4. November 14th, 2009, at 6:56 AM.

Hi Pixell head, yes tag cloud are important for us. We can use tag cloud as label of the blog post. Most of social bookmarking site like digg also use tag cloud.

cbreceipt
#5. November 15th, 2009, at 4:52 AM.

I prefer using a few labels/tags instead of having a gazillion of them. After all a lot of tags don’t make navigating easier. Or is it just me?

bestpricemoving
#6. November 16th, 2009, at 10:29 AM.

At first i just want to say you thanks. Because you share with us. Actually I didn’t know tag is very important for us. I have never use it before. But I will use it from now on. thanks for the tips.

Jayesh SEO Mumbai
#7. November 16th, 2009, at 11:29 AM.

Hi
Yes i can say from my experience that tag clouds are still very important

sportytrader
#8. November 16th, 2009, at 3:09 PM.

Thanks for the information, I didn’t know about the importance of tags. I was always asking myself, why the tags have a different size. But I don’t like sites which only have tags and no categories, it’s hard to find something when your searched keyword is not in the tag cloud.

Kim Ramsey
#9. November 16th, 2009, at 3:58 PM.

Tagging plays an important role in an owner’s site. It actually helps the owners to get relevant results with the use of their post where they provided a tag. Many take advantage of this technique.

Equipment Leasing
#10. November 16th, 2009, at 6:47 PM.

Too many categories… I know that problem well! I really need to go through and re-organize my tags and categories on a few blogs I operate. I am going to try and limit my categories to about 10 areas, using tags to help further group my articles.

FYI… Deep linking to tag/category pages has been a big help in ranking for more specific keywords!

Paula Jo
#13. November 17th, 2009, at 7:10 PM.

Pixelhead, you are very welcome and I thank you for not deleting my comment. I appreciate very much any blog, any forum post or any article I can learn something new from, and I will leave a relevant comment. For me being honest, I do not like people they just post something like “great post” or “nice post” etc. just to get the chance for a quick and easy backlink. And also thanks to you for coming and check out my shop. I will keep coming back to your blog and if I find something interesting you will have to expect me commenting on it.

faydaliweb
#14. November 18th, 2009, at 1:40 PM.

you can use category tag cloud with standart tag cloud

Goran | Net Age
#15. November 19th, 2009, at 9:58 AM.

You raise some good points about tag cloud pages. Be very careful of duplicate content, so rather just use an excerpt with a link back to the page where the original post can be found. Unique titles are also a must. Always remember that duplicate content is your great enemy, and will do your SEO efforts no favours.

New Homes
#16. November 20th, 2009, at 8:19 PM.

I use tag clouds on every page of my website because we have built it in wordpress. I think that they help identify what your page is and about. Not sure if it a huge factor but I think every little bit helps in the eye of Google.

crazy blogger
#17. November 21st, 2009, at 10:28 AM.

use good keywords in tags can attract more traffic from search engines

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#18. November 22nd, 2009, at 8:40 PM.

Thanks very much for the list of resources on the tag cloud, especially the WordPress plugin. Now I’ll have something to add to my to-do list of things that should be updated on my own blogs.

Harry
#19. November 24th, 2009, at 6:16 AM.

Great post shows important of tag clouds. Thanks for sharing and it was much useful to me.

Javier Martinez
#20. November 24th, 2009, at 12:03 PM.

I’ve read several comments, some for and others against the cloud of tags. Can anyone explain me if it can improve my position in Google?

Ben Hunt (web designer)
#21. November 26th, 2009, at 12:53 PM.

I find most tag clouds to be “more funk than function”.

I get the idea, but the application is more often than not inappropriate.

Shoaib
#22. November 26th, 2009, at 2:25 PM.

Tag cloud is an emerging feature and a number of websites are adopting it. A website with a tag cloud can help their visitors know about their focus. So, overall I think its a good feature.

dadiss
#23. November 26th, 2009, at 8:11 PM.

yep , useful stuff here , even if tag cloud are a bit confusing for all those who do not know how to use them to find the topic they are looking for , thanks

Link building
#24. November 28th, 2009, at 6:56 PM.

There is a great advantage with tag clouds. Lets say if you have an article regarding seo then you will be using some keywords like seo,search engine optimization, sem. So each tag cloud will have some dedicated pages.
example : domain.com/article/tag/seo

So, this will increases number of indexed pages of your site. Site authority increases as number of indexed pages increases… And ofcourse many people build links to tags.. This is also a great benefit.

Keith @ Superior Fence Products
#25. December 4th, 2009, at 2:35 PM.

So many get confused on the use not only of tags, but especially categories. I used to confuse the 2 so much that I would have the same keywords for both! Good article.

Antony
#27. December 8th, 2009, at 4:14 PM.

thanks for the info about words or tags that are represented more often on a site are listed with darker and larger text, I thought that the size is randomly created..

gunceldurum
#28. December 10th, 2009, at 1:49 AM.

So, this will increases number of indexed pages of your site. Site authority increases as number of indexed pages increases… And ofcourse many people build links to tags.. This is also a great benefit.

Susan
#29. December 15th, 2009, at 9:31 AM.

Interesting article and although i have never used them i can see certain advantages. Your tag cloud looks smart and is compact and if it works saves the effort of writing a lot of content to get the required keywords onto the page. I will certainly give it a try on a couple of pages and if can notice any perveived improvements will certainly add then here. Fingers crossed i do.

SEO
#30. January 29th, 2010, at 12:23 PM.

Depends how its written but each tag should be weighted as a % of the corpus, so there should always be room.Alternatively if you have a very dispersed corpus you can limit the cloud to the top N% tags.

Wayne John
#31. February 18th, 2010, at 11:10 PM.

I just found out that you linked to one of my pages, and I never caught it when you actually did it. Thanks for the link love Adam!

Tag are perhaps the best way to increase your overall page count too. For each tag you add, that’s yet another page in your collection of pages that comprise your blog.

More pages = more traffic potential = more potential search revenue

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