Hi DP members, Does tag clouds still helps for SEO? I am very conserned about the proper way to do this. I am worried that I may harm my rankings if I screwed up something somewhere. Please advice me... Cheers Kal
Tag clouds are generally used to increase visibility however if you are using tags like keyword it should help you in SEO.
If you notice on site:yoursite.com on google or yahoo, you will see those tag sites get indexed too. So, tag is important in SEO point of view. You don't have to worry if you change your tags as it will be updated within few days if your blog visited by search engine bots frequently.
Maybe you should try a plugin for wordpress that generates search term cloud. This plugin collects search terms that arrive on your specific post and display them as a keyword cloud sometimes on the sidebar. It will help for deep linking on your website.
yes they are, if used correctly (with keywords), they all give you internal linking based on your keywords. It's not crucial to SEO, but good SEO is about doing many little things!
Our blog has been ranking well on the SERPs even when it didn't have a tag cloud, but we had a boost in rankings, and eventually traffic, by the time we included one. Moreover, it will be easier for your visitors to see what your entire blog is all about by simply having a glimpse of that tag cloud.
Tag clouds help ur site to boost ur ranking on SERP if these tags are covered in ur site, means you must have content related to tags generated by plugins. Tag clouds help search engines find ur site in easy manner, but at the same time you must be careful about writing contents regarding matching tags.