Tag clouds....

[Styles UK]

Apologies but i have yet another question

What the view on tag clouds?
Do they improve seo or just make websites look spammy?

Regards
Andy

 

[TheSlackers]

IMHO Spammy!

 

[fisicx]

Looking at it from the wrong perspective. If it improves the usability of the site then add one. Doubt if there is any seo value since it is dynamic.

 

[Styles UK]

IMHO Spammy!

I thought the same but im sure i saw on another forum that google loves them :|

 

[gogul2k]

I don't have enough personal data to give a response to this as a tried and tested method.

Personally though, I don't think it is a problem if the links are relevant.

BTW: Forget Google ... as long as it can basically read your site, it'll pay overall if you focus on producing something the user loves

 

[TheSlackers]

I thought the same but im sure i saw on another forum that google loves them :|

"Google loves this" -That's phrase puts me right off. Google does not "Love" it's a search engine.

Do you believe eveything you read? They're just links and words, nothing "magic" about them. If the word are useful you should already have them in the important places on your site anyway.

 

[Ali-v-8]

love is a strong word. best way to say it is google accepts them

 

[Styles UK]

"Google loves this" -That's phrase puts me right off. Google does not "Love" it's a search engine.

Do you believe eveything you read? They're just links and words, nothing "magic" about them. If the word are useful you should already have them in the important places on your site anyway.

Whoah tiger.

No need for the sarky reply......

I was only repeating what i read & as i have very little knowledge & was asking for others views on the question i asked re tag clouds not whether 'i believe everything that i read'
But thanks for the input anyhow

 

[KM-Tiger]

Most ordinary visitors don't understand what a tag cloud is - try a straw poll amongst non IT friends, and I think you will find that is the case.

 

[TheSlackers]

Whoah tiger.

No need for the sarky reply......

Sorry, didn't mean it that way at all :redface:

 

[Styles UK]

Sorry, didn't mean it that way at all :redface:

No worries i may have read it wrong anyway.....Friends again

 

[redtreeland]

tag clouds certainly help search engines index pages faster, especially those with no links from any other pages on your site.

i've got them on my sites in my signature, and seem to work well for spiders and bots.