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Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
Old 02-03-2011, 11:18 AM Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
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One of my sites is based off a Wordpress CMS. I use a tag cloud on it but with the number of tags it's growing pretty big and eating into prime advertising space. Tag clouds were supposed to be the thing to have but if you have a clear set of categories listed, do you still need the tags as well?

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Old 02-03-2011, 01:16 PM Re: Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
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I think it's pretty useless, it doesn't help that one of my tags is much bigger than the others either.
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Old 02-03-2011, 03:42 PM Re: Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
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I'm totally with you on the size thing. It's annoying that some of my tags mess up the format of the cell like they do.
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Old 02-04-2011, 03:19 PM Re: Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
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There's some evidence that they help on very large sites by encouraging people to click and browse - on smaller sites I believe they're a waste of space if other navigation is adequate.
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Old 02-07-2011, 03:52 PM Re: Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
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Tag clouds, aint they the things to tell search engines what your key words are? Is your site so crap that search engines don't know your keywords?
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Old 02-10-2011, 01:04 AM Re: Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
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Yes still seeing if they are making a difference maybe a small amount more traffic
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Old 02-10-2011, 09:33 PM Re: Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
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In terms of Search Engine Optimization Tag Cloud is a waste, It will cause duplicate content penalty.
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Old 02-10-2011, 09:41 PM Re: Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
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In terms of Search Engine Optimization Tag Cloud is a waste, It will cause duplicate content penalty.
Google does not penalize for duplicate content.
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Old 02-16-2011, 11:58 AM Re: Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
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Google does not penalize for duplicate content.
That's true, there are no penalties but you'll barely have good ranking/traffic copying well-known stuff.
Google Official Blog posts:
1. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...t-penalty.html
2. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...e-content.html
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Old 02-16-2011, 09:19 PM Re: Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
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While the 'tag cloud' was new and interesting when it first came out, it seems more gimmicky than anything else nowadays. For 'techy' sites it might still be an 'in' thing to have it included but for any non-technical site it's probably just a waste of usable space (especially in terms of what web site visitors think of the tag cloud).
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Old 02-17-2011, 10:43 AM Re: Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
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IMHO tag clouds is pretty and may be usable but I'm never used it for find something. Somebody directly uses tag clouds?
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Old 02-18-2011, 01:38 PM Re: Tag Cloud, is it a must have or is it worthless?
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I personally find tag clouds messy. Tho I don't mind tags below every post.
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