Thursday 3 March 2011

Tag Cloud Creators

Blog-like websites are increasingly popular. One way of enhancing your website to make it more blog-like is to add a Tag Cloud. A Tag Cloud is a list of the popular keywords associated with the content on your site. Often Tag Clouds are generated based on the words appearing in your website's content. Other Tag Clouds are generated based on what users are finding popular, and keywords they're using to find your site.

There's another less well known use of Tag Clouds. By linking to the popular content on your site, they can make the site a little more SEO friendly.

Many website content mangement systems come with modules to allow Tag Clouds to be added to a site. WordPress CMS in particular has a large number of different Tag Cloud options.

Here's more information about Tag Cloud creators, plus an example Tag Cloud.