Using Tag Clouds for Better SEO? Right or Wrong

Posted by Radha Krishna on 17 August 2010 10 Comments

Is it Best to Use Tag Cloud in terms of SEO? Are Tag Clouds Good for SEO? These are the questions raised by many in  forums. So here is What Matt Cutts says about using Tag Cloud on your Blog affects Search Engine Rankings and PageRank.

What is Tag Cloud?

A Tag Cloud is something like a bunch of links (tags) that are displayed in the form of a cloud where the tags that have more posts is shown bigger and the one that had least will be shown smaller. This will be commonly used in the sidebars of blog.

Do Tag Clouds help or hinder SEO? or do they have no effect at all?

Yes (or) No.

  • Yes, tag clouds really kill Search Engine Rankings as well as PageRank if you have more number of Tags on your blog. This is why because Search Engines consider these as keyword stuffing as you’ll have more number of keywords (tags) in one place and also your Page Rank Juice will pass through all the pages which inturn reduces the PageRank for your Homepage.
  • Tag Cloud SEO

  • No, tag clouds help SEO if you have less number of tags in your blog which gives users to navigate easily among your blog posts.
  • Tag Cloud For Search Engine Rankings

So think of this and decide yourself whether your blog stands in the first category or the second one and chose the Tag Clouds accordingly.

Also See: How to Display Post Tags WordPress?
Additional: Tag Clouds Generator Tool

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Posted by Radha Krishna   @   17 August 2010 10 comments

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Perfectly clear response to my most pressing SEO question of the night (or middle of the night, as the case may be). Realized my glaring error when trying to perform a site keyword audit and found every keyword on every page due to my tag cloud in the sidebar.

On my site, no one cares about the tag cloud – no one clicks through. On another site, the tags in the cloud get used heavily.

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Paul says:

Surely tag clouds are a bad practice as we’re always told “no keyword stuffing”. To a search engine it will appear like a fragmented sentence, is this not a bad thing?

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B.K Panday says:

nice example of tag cloud i will try to use it in my blog thanks for information

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Shayari says:

thank,s for this gerat artical .But i want to know that how can i create a cloud tog for mys site?

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Bk Panday says:

Still i am Confusing about Tag .

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