Tag Cloud - Do You Have One On Your Site?
February 3rd, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
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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Comment by Jalaj on 4 February 2008:
Since I have a redesigned blog (on sanbox theme) using tag cloud would require me to add CSS code for it without which it looks absurd.
Comment by How To Tutorials on 4 February 2008:
A Tag Cloud is certainly useful. You can only show so many posts on your front page and in the ‘Recent’ and ‘Top’ posts. Your site visitor can easily navigate to any topic if the blog has a tag cloud.
Comment by Joseph Plazo on 4 February 2008:
I think they look snazzy in the beginning- but after a bit, they strike me as a tad unprofessional. Imagine seeing tag clouds on washington post or wall street journal…
Comment by kpriss on 3 February 2008:
Could be useful. Visitors can see older articles without too much searching.
Comment by Tim on 3 February 2008:
They are easy enough to develop, I hadn’t thought about the SEO benefits, but i guess it would allow it to find relevant content more easily
Comment by Niro on 3 February 2008:
You now what I think. I personally don’t look into tag clouds in small sites. Well if I get into technorati or some Blogcatalog I might. I feel tag cloud is good only for big sites with so many posts. Anyhow this tag cloud is basically a web2.0 style so I really love the concept.
Comment by Pete on 3 February 2008:
Tag clouds look cool, but I never find myself using it when I come across them on websites…
Comment by Collin LaHay on 3 February 2008:
They are also used for search engine optimization rather than JUST traffic. I am going to be adding one to my blog (after I figure out how!)
Comment by Tim on 3 February 2008:
I quite like tag clouds myself, I find them useful for finding related articles (by category) rather than a site generated ‘related articles’ list. As Zath said, they let you see a more specific index of related content.
Comment by Zath on 3 February 2008:
I quite like the look of tag clouds, they’re particularly useful for me if I’m visiting a site I haven’t used before and can browse older content easily.
A regular site I visit, I probably prefer to search to find what I’m looking for.