Does this help
 

Hi

Been looking through some blog and tube sites when breaking from building sites.

Have seen a lot of them with huge tag list placed in different places on the sites.

Does this help site ranking?

To me it kind of looks a waist of space.


Just my opinion ( I know everyone has an opinion like everyone has an ass hole) :1orglaugh

My blog script lets you add catogorie and tag links under my post that when clicked take you to any related post.

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Searching sites looks like the most popular content is videos right now.

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. :)

Hi faysjoint

Thank you

It just look like a bunch of waisted space to me since each of my post are categorized and tags already

Guess it would help with traffic if you had a pile of sites to link to each.

you mean keyword cloud :P

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.

welcome back :)

Thank you for opinions :thumbsup

really confused now
 

I thought tag clouds were for site navigation. Slice and dice your content and let people find what they like. I put mine up and learned quickly that they liked my tags but hated my content because they would go to tag pages and then exit. So I changed my content and now they go to pages. But people use them religiously to get around, based on sitting and watching google analytics real time for ages. But you're saying that having them on every page hurts SEO? Won't taking them away make pissy users?

Definitely helps.