Tag Cloud - Do You Have One On Your Site?

February 3rd, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Tag Cloud

WordPress 2.3 added much needed tag support, but I haven’t seen a lot of sites making much use of the capability. One feature I haven’t seen many live examples of are Tag Clouds. I tried adding a tag cloud to my sidebar today, but I ran into a few problems which exposed problems with the way my designer setup my sidebar.

I think Tag Clouds can look very cool (just look at these sexy examples), but do you think that readers actually find them useful? Would you rather stick to using a search engine to finding the content you want on a site? I’m interested to know what you think, as adding a Tag Cloud to my site could be a lot of work.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK.

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    Comment by Marie - Wipe Out Cellulite on 11 April 2008:

    I think Tag Clouds can be eye catching (that can be a good or bad thing) and perhaps keep your readers on your blog that little bit longer, but are you simply creating lots of extra pages with similar content.

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    Comment by Jawwad on 9 February 2008:

    Actually I have added Tag Cloud (courtesy of Simple Tags plugin)but removed it in the end because I did not like it in the end because sidebar was not looking as clean and tidy after adding it. I think it is more of matter of preference of an individual webmaster.

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    Comment by Mark from Bloglyne on 7 February 2008:

    We use a tag cloud on Bloglyne.com but I don’t ever notice anybody using it. Of course, I do not have the volume you do, but, we will continue to use it.

    We are using Ultimate Tag Warrior, which tags comments and keywords.

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    Comment by Henrik on 5 February 2008:

    I must say I prefer some well-defined categories to a tag cloud. But that’s probably personal preference…

    And on a SEO note, with those categories in place a tag cloud just creates some possible duplicate content issues

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    Comment by Jeffro2pt0 on 4 February 2008:

    I use a tag cloud but I’m soon going to figure out how to display the tags that a post has been assigned like I use to be able to do with the UTW plugin. The tag cloud on my site has become an eye sore.

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    Comment by Shashank on 4 February 2008:

    I think you should add tag cloud as there’s a lot empty space in your sidebar.

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