[Phpwm] tag clouds

[David Goodwin]

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Phil Beynon wrote:
>>> So I pretty much understand the concept, how the CSS works, how
>> you derive
>>> the words from the database, how you make the actual word cloud
>> for search
>>> engines and how it intergrates with the searching functionality
>> to present
>>> the pages with those words to the s/e.
>> I didn't realise search engine's understood tag clounds -
> 
> Yeah thats why you use different size fonts, Hx tags etc as the search
> engines do traditionally rank something thats in say an <h1> higher than a
> <h6> etc.
> Thats a fairly standard SEO technique.
> 

Sorry - obviously <h> tags and font sizes would have some impact on a
search engine, I thought you were implying there was a 'standard' tag
cloud format that search engines could understand and use (similar to
google-esque sitemaps)


> I've seen pages with them on, and they look utterly crap :-)
> I don't think they impart anything useful to the human reader at all.

Well.. it's useful to see what sort of content is popular, and it can
give you a quick overview of what someone's blog/site is involved
with... or (for instance) what products have been popular recently.

Although on a more commercial side, you'd think something more concrete
like a clickable graph with numbers would be of more use!

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David Goodwin

[ david at codepoets dot co dot uk ]
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