Tag Clouds are sometimes a very, very bad idea

by TimGross

Posted: 14 years ago 14 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Think using Tag Clouds are always cool? Not when it's regarding customer support.

I assume they're aware of this because they're a technology company, but check out the Tag Cloud on the right side of NewEgg's customer service forum:

EggXpert - Shopping EggXperience

I'll save you the trouble of clicking, here it is in full:

annoyance bad experience bad experience bad egg complaint Customer Loyalty customer service customer support delivery DHL disapointed experiencing problems Help newegg newegg customer service not happy order status rant RMA shipping issues Suggestions UPS

A couple points:

1) It's ballsy of them them (or a mistake) to put up a Popular Tags Cloud on their customer support page! Make sure you're not auto-generating yourself a similar disservice on your own sites

2) NewEgg is actually supposed to be quite high in customer service and customer satisfaction. Who goes to customer service boards and complains? The people with problems, that's who. Complaints don't doesn't automatically make the seller a "bad egg". (pun intended)

Either way, I wonder if they're aware of their customer support tag cloud. If it were me... I'd remove it. What good does it do?

#bad #clouds #idea #tag

Michael Mayo 14 years ago

Tim,
I bet they have no clue it is enabled...lol

Good catch on your part. Did you notify them?
Just curious.

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GeorgR. 14 years ago

Newegg ROCKS - my #1 PC parts source when i was still living in the states
Yeah, that tag cloud looks bad ... they should remove this.
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- thmgoodw 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by GeorgR.
  
  Newegg ROCKS - my #1 PC parts source when i was still living in the states
  Yeah, that tag cloud looks bad ... they should remove this.
  
  Newegg is my #1 PC hardware/parts source as well.
  
  And yea, that tag cloud is freakin awesome.
  
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The Dotcom Hippie 14 years ago

Haha, that's awesome. Funniest thing I've seen today.
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- Dave Toomey 14 years ago
  
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  Not good at all.
  
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Mr. Enthusiastic 14 years ago

When I visited just now I saw that "don't hold breath" was in the cloud!

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- TimGross 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Mr. Enthusiastic
  
  When I visited just now I saw that "don't hold breath" was in the cloud!
  
  Heh, that's new. MAN, that tag cloud is a bad move...
  
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Big JP

14 years ago

Personally I never use tag clouds, I don't see the need for them, plus they take valuable $$$ space.

Anyone here actually use or like them?

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Michael Mayo

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Big JP

Personally I never use tag clouds, I don't see the need for them, plus they take valuable $$$ space.

Anyone here actually use or like them?

Actually I know someone here on the Warrior Forum that uses it on their forum.

You may have heard of this guy, his name is Allen Says. The site is the Warrior Forum.

Here is his Tag Cloud : WarriorForum - Internet Marketing Forums - Tags

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Big JP

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Michael Mayo

I wasn't reffering to forums, but I agree they can be useful then, and on social sites like Hubpages.

I mean on actual websites for affiliate marketing, adsense, products etc. I think they look too ugly, and just waste space, as others have said on this thread, they're just a bad move...

(my opinion

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shaddai

14 years ago

Apparently this thread got their attention :-)
Okay...maybe it was reddits & huffington post really...anyway...

5 minutes ago:

EggXpert - Negative Keywords in the Tag Cloud

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Big JP

14 years ago

Originally Posted by shaddai

Apparently this thread got their attention :-)
Okay...maybe it was reddits & huffington post really...anyway...

5 minutes ago:

EggXpert - Negative Keywords in the Tag Cloud

Haha! Very Kool

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ExRat 14 years ago

Hi,

When I visited just now I saw that "don't hold breath" was in the cloud!

Splorf!

Personally I never use tag clouds, I don't see the need for them, plus they take valuable $$$ space.

Anyone here actually use or like them?

Yep. They highlight your popular keywords (to the SEs), they give a quick summary of your site's content to the visitor (and hopefully a subject catches their eye), and most importantly they provide a useful navigation feature (a click provides ALL the posts with that tag) which on some blogs, is much needed.
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Scott Ames 14 years ago

Too funny! Great find! I love it. I laughed out loud.
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