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Originally Posted by faysjoint
I'd only have it on the homepage, albeit a suppressed list if there are a lot of tags. It's a waste of space indeed, and I don't see how it would help the search engine rankings as majority of the tags would be irrelevant to individual pages, homepage would be an exemption due to variety of content, and I believe that's where search engines expecting a tag cloud in the first place.  |
I hate tag clouds personally cuz I think they look messy but what I've read about them corresponds to what Faysjoint is saying. Tag clouds don't necessarily help with seo all that much (although they do spread around link juice from the home page and do act as anchors for keywords as rosx says) but having too many tags in a huge cloud or a cloud on every page can apparently actually hurt you from an seo perspective cuz it can be perceived as spammy by google.
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