Should I use a tag cloud? How do I create a tag cloud? Will it hurt my rankings or PR? Any thoughts and answers will be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
ZoomClouds will generate a tag cloud for your blog; http://zoomclouds.egrupos.net/ To the extent, it creates an easy link set for the spider to go to all the pages, it'll help.
i don't completely understand the use of cloud tags. I mean some popular websites use it for displaying related search results, whereas some use it for SEO. But aren't Cloud tags in a way similar to link farms?
Tag clouds are pointing to the most popular keywords of your own pages; so they differ from being a link farm pointing to other sites / external pages. Think of it as being an automated sitemap generator - where you limit the number of links to a maximum number and the most popular keywords/pages.
ultimate tag warrior will build tag clouds for your wordpress site. It adds the tags to your meta keywords too... UTW is a must for wordpress blogs. tags can also be used to make 1 page/post look like many pages with permalinks for example: tag a post with "testimonials", and "business partners" and wordpress will create permalinks for both tags 1. www.domain.com/testimonials/title_of_blog_post/ 2. www.domain.com/business_partners/title_of_blog_post/ use the google sitemap plugin for wordpress to submit to google.
If it creates 2 permalinks, other problem may occur, maybe search engine will treat your post as duplicate content.
I presume you just install it as a plugin? Would be interested in whether it does create duplicate content and if you will therefore get penalised!