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Old 03-30-2010, 12:22 AM Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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Now I have never used nor liked tag clouds, to me they are just an ugly mass of different font sized words, so why do so many sites use them?

Everyday on any webmaster forum you can read that "keywords must come in a natural flow" is there anything more unnatural than a mass of nonsensical words jumbled together?

Are people too lazy or dumb to intergrate the keywords they want in a normal flow of sentences on their webpages? Why the hell do people use them? Is it to tell search engines the most used keywords for your website? If so is your website so badly set up that search engines wont see that for themselves?
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Old 03-30-2010, 02:56 PM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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But it's "Web 2.0" therefore absolutely essential for search engine success!!
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Old 03-30-2010, 03:18 PM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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But it's "Web 2.0" therefore absolutely essential for search engine success!!
I hope you're being sarcastic?
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Old 03-30-2010, 03:25 PM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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I hope you're being sarcastic?
As IF I would be sarcastic about such things
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Old 03-30-2010, 03:36 PM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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As IF I would be sarcastic about such things
You don't have a sarcastic bone in your body.
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Old 03-30-2010, 09:28 PM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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they are fantastic it helps boost your site in google
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Old 03-30-2010, 10:50 PM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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I have a cunning plan to take the tag cloud world by storm, all I need is 3 indestructible pc's and 3 monkeys, and of course the domain name tagcloud.com as we all know that it is essential if you want to dominate a market to have your keywords in the domain name, watch out world, here I come.
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Old 03-31-2010, 03:37 AM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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I am not going to tell you how great they are because I would never use anything like that at all.

Good luck on your adventure to storm the tag cloud world!
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Old 03-31-2010, 04:41 AM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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Hit a minor snag with the monkeys, they would rather chew on the mouse than randomly hit the keyboard, seems this tag cloud business is a bit harder than I initially thought, would chimps be better?
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Old 03-31-2010, 04:57 AM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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I like the options on the widget, but when I try to change the number of tags shown in the widget options, it won’t change. When I change it and click the “Update Settings” button or the “Change” button, neither one will work, and it resets itself to 0. I managed to get the number of tags I want showing by editing the number in the php code, but I thought you might like to know it’s not working for me in the widget options.
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Old 03-31-2010, 10:07 AM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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Hit a minor snag with the monkeys, they would rather chew on the mouse than randomly hit the keyboard, seems this tag cloud business is a bit harder than I initially thought, would chimps be better?
Have you tried feeding the monkeys some bananas?
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Old 03-31-2010, 10:14 AM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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Hit a minor snag with the monkeys, they would rather chew on the mouse than randomly hit the keyboard
That's often the problem when you pay peanuts.
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Old 03-31-2010, 12:42 PM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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BTW I prefer these clouds
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Old 03-31-2010, 11:30 PM Re: Tag Clouds - Tell me how great they are
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I've never used them either, I don't find the content I'm looking for on a site via a huge chunk of differently sized keywords.

Some people use them as a substitute for categories however.
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