Yakezie.com - Topic: Best tool for the job? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/ Simple:Press Version 4.5.1 maria@moneyprinciple on Best tool for the job? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57658 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57658 Thanks! Something to think about. I thought I am making it easier for readers to find stuff this way but may be not. So instead of tdoing anything to tags and clouds I will have to redo the categories on my blog - long overdo this is. Christmas here I come!

 

Thanks for yourt help and have a great holiday.

 

Maria

]]> Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:58:18 +0000 Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter on Best tool for the job? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57611 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57611 Sustainable PF said:

TBH, I don't see a lot of value in the tag cloud, so if it were me, the "re-do" would involve removing it entirely.

I never see the "large" sites use a tag cloud and from what I understand, as long as you have a sitemap for Google to crawl, Google doesn't need the unruly eye-numbing tag cloud to index you properly.

This is what I have seen too which is why I don't use tags. I find categories sufficient enough.

]]> Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:25:01 +0000 BeforeYouInvest on Best tool for the job? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57590 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57590 If you get rid of your old tags, or change them to new ones, you should 301 (permanent redirect) the old URL to the new one... otherwise Google could get a lot of 404 (page not found) errors.

 

If you're using Wordpress you can use a plugin called Simple 301 to redirect old pages to new ones.  

 

Overall though I don't see much value in tag clouds... it creates dupe content on your site plus Google only crawls so many pages at a time, so why waste it on tags?  

 

If you have Thesis you can set them to nofollow/noindex in the theme's site settings.  

]]> Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:13:37 +0000 Invest It Wisely on Best tool for the job? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57513 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57513 I still have a tag cloud, and though I get some hits on the tags in search it's a low proportion overall.

 

You don't really need the tags in the cloud. For changing the tags themselves I'm not sure, there may be plugins for that. You can also do a "quick edit" on your posts or rename the tags.

]]> Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:31:30 +0000 Sustainable PF on Best tool for the job? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57451 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57451 TBH, I don't see a lot of value in the tag cloud, so if it were me, the "re-do" would involve removing it entirely.

I never see the "large" sites use a tag cloud and from what I understand, as long as you have a sitemap for Google to crawl, Google doesn't need the unruly eye-numbing tag cloud to index you properly.

]]> Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:43:59 +0000 maria@moneyprinciple on Best tool for the job? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57450 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57450 Well, I would like to be able to scrap the tags I have (I don't think they reflect the content of my blog well) and develop another set. Is there a programme (a tool) that I can use to do this? Or do I do it 'top down'?

 

Best

Maria

]]> Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:40:29 +0000 JT_McGee on Best tool for the job? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57442 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57442 What do you mean by "redoing?"

]]> Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:07:23 +0000 maria@moneyprinciple on Best tool for the job? https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57430 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/best-tool-for-the-job/#p57430 Hi guys,

 

as impatient goes I am up there with the best of them. So, thinking that my tag cloud needs redoing what tool do you use to do do that?

 

Maria

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