In blogging world this one of the most famous terms adore by millions of blogger. Why? Cause it gives readers/traffic, increase visibility of your blog. It works more like a keyword, but the difference is search engine crawl these a lot faster. Not only has that it related your blog to other blogs where same tag cloud used. So it links you to thousands of blog, without even knowing them. When you are tired of running behind “keyword”, “SEO”, “traffic”, and all else is breaking loose Tag cloud can definitely gives you hope. In fact it works like magic.
What is “Tag Cloud”?
A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) can be used as a visual depiction of content tags used on a blog. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical, but not necessarily. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag. The first widely known tag cloud appeared on Flickr, the photo sharing site. Tag clouds have also been popularized by Technorati, among others. Example- The words you can see bellow this post.
Category Of “Tag Cloud”
There are two main types of tag cloud, distinguished by their meaning rather than appearance. Though it's not always like that.
- Size represents the number of times that tag has been applied to a single item. This is useful as a means of displaying metadata about an item that has been democratically 'voted' on and where precise results are not desired.
- Size represents the number of items that have been given that tag. This is used as a presentation of the popularity of the tags and can be indicative of the content they cover, although in most contexts such information is of little use. Interestingly, the more prominent the tag the less information it contains. An example of this is Flickr.
How to make “Tag Cloud”
If you are using Blog software’s like Drupal, typead, wordpress you don’t have to worry a thing adding “Tag Cloud”. All those software has its own plug-in/modules/ add-on to add this feature. Just got to their add-on section and search for “Tag”. If you can’t find it ask for support.
You can build “Tag cloud” from organization that provides those services too, if you don’t want to go through all the editing stuffs.
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