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1:51 am
December 22, 2011
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maria@moneyprinciple
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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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7:07 am
December 22, 2011
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JT_McGee
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What do you mean by "redoing?"
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7:40 am
December 22, 2011
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maria@moneyprinciple
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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
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7:43 am
December 22, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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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.
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8:31 pm
December 22, 2011
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Invest It Wisely
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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.
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10:13 am
December 23, 2011
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BeforeYouInvest
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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.
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1:25 pm
December 23, 2011
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter
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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.
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1:58 am
December 24, 2011
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maria@moneyprinciple
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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
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