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Tag Clouds

by Bryan Toder
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I have a blog widget with tag clouds. It's taking up "space" on the pages and I was just wondering, other than aesthetics, does a tag cloud do anything for SEO (or should I just delete it)?
#clouds #seo #tag #tag clouds
  • Profile picture of the author faceblogger
    No. Tag clouds does not have any significant SEO importance. Just disable them if they waste the space or affect the neatness. I remember I too had the very same problem and question 2 years back! I am not using tags on my professional blogs and they do rank well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rich Lowe
    Hi Bryan,

    It leads to duplicated content. If you want to leave it, "noindex" derective should be used to prevent indexing. You can control it with any seo wordpress plugin.


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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    You guys must be doing the Tag Clouds wrong, or running a poor quality WP plugin.

    I run a Tag Cloud at the bottom of my Index page, & a canonical tag on every single page of my site with specific URLs.

    If you setup your site correct the tag cloud will help rank your tag pages in the SERPs.

    All my Tag & Category pages are indexed in Google SERPs, along with the usual Post & Pages.

    OP, check your Google Cache (text version) & see how Google displays your Tag Cloud.
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    • Profile picture of the author lotre
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      You guys must be doing the Tag Clouds wrong, or running a poor quality WP plugin.

      I run a Tag Cloud at the bottom of my Index page, & a canonical tag on every single page of my site with specific URLs.

      If you setup your site correct the tag cloud will help rank your tag pages in the SERPs.

      All my Tag & Category pages are indexed in Google SERPs, along with the usual Post & Pages.

      OP, check your Google Cache (text version) & see how Google displays your Tag Cloud.
      Hey Yukon

      Do you make the tag cloud noindex?


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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by lotre View Post

        Hey Yukon

        Do you make the tag cloud noindex?


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        No, not at all.

        I want the Tag pages to be indexed in the SERPs just like they are.

        I think what sets my WP-Tags apart from others sites is, I run a unique canonical tag in the Header.php for every single page on my site (including category & tag pages).

        I don't run any SEO plugins I hard code everything on my sites.
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