Do Tag Clouds Harm Your Site
Everyone has seen the tag clouds that tend to be on blogs at the bottom somewhere or the sidebar, but are they doing your site any harm.
When they were first released they were for users to navigate to certain topics by using tags to take them to relevant content. Hardly anyone uses tag clouds to navigate a site especially if the site has been thought out with a good nav system. All sites now days should have a good navigation system as one of the goals is took your readers/users on your site for as long as possible.
In my opinion the downside to tag clouds is they only display one words rather than sentences so it looks a bit spammy and similar to keyword stuffing. If you don’t use any blackhat techniques then your tag cloud will appear harmless as google is aware of the tag cloud but if you are already keyword stuffing or trying some other shady techniques then the tag cloud could be the icing on the cake as it were.
So to conlucde a tag cloud is pretty harmless and is nothing to worry about unless you are already using what is considered to be grey/blackhat techniques.
Whats your opinion or experiences in this area, let us know by leaving a comment.
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