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What is a Tag Cloud?

First of all, what are ‘tags’?

Tags are a set of words or phrases that are attributed to a blog post (or other object such as an image) by making it easier to find by grouping the blog post with other pages of associated content.

These tags help users to conduct research in the field that they are interested in by helping them to easily source other associated information. Tags also assist search engines with determining page relevancy.

So what is a tag cloud?

A tag cloud is basically a weighted list of tags. The tags within the tag cloud are given this weighting via a larger or smaller font size. This allows the user to easily establish which tag category is the most popular and allows search engines to better determine the amount of focus from the website to a particular market segment.

This should therefore in theory aid your appeal to search engines for your more popular tags.

What is del.icio.us?

Del.icio.us is generally considered to be the most popular social bookmarking website.

What the heck is a social bookmarking website!?

Good question! A social bookmarking website is somewhere online that you can keep a record of all your favourite web pages. You can then log in from any computer around the world to access your favourites.

However, what’s even more important about a social bookmarking service is that it’s social. This means that if you want you can share your favourite web pages with other users - and you can see what everyone else is saving in their favourites.

This has two key benefits

A social bookmarking service offers two key benefits as well in addition to giving you the ability to access your favourite web pages on the move:

1) Because you can view web pages that have already been voted as relevant by real people - and not just search engines - the chances are that you won’t be trawling through tens of websites to find the information you need

2) Because these bookmarks are stored online, this gives search engines an opportunity to see what’s hot and what’s not at the moment. This means all you have to do is persuade you visitors to bookmark your site online in their favourites to increase your appeal to search engines!