Staying on topic on your blog? Use your tag cloud to see
When I visit other sites, I very seldom take a look at their tag cloud. I’m not sure why, I guess I’m usually there because I found myself there through a reference or the title or caption was of interest to me.
However, I think it’s important for bloggers to pay attention to their own blog’s tag cloud. You can see my tag cloud in the sidebar under “Tags”. I think I’m doing a pretty good job of keeping on content, since my cloud references business, marketing, and technology. That’s truly what I wanted to keep my blog’s content about so I suppose I’m doing a pretty good job.
A tag cloud (more traditionally known as a weighted list in the field of visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical. Thus both finding a tag by alphabet and by popularity is possible. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag. – Wikipedia
Pay attention to your tag cloud, it will provide you with the information to see whether or not you are staying on content. Take a look at some of these tag clouds and see about whether or not these sites are staying on content:
Aside from mine, these are some examples of some very successful blogs. When you compare the tag cloud to the definition of the blog, you’ll find perfect symmetry between them. I suppose if your tag cloud doesn’t provide a visitor with a sense of what your blog is really about, then you should probably adjust your focus, or adjust how you describe and define your blog.
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