Tag Cloud, do they affect rankings?

Discussion in 'Black Hat SEO' started by wooSj, Oct 18, 2011.

  1. Oct 18, 2011
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    wooSj

    wooSj Junior Member

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    I got a niche site at the second place in google. But I'm using a tag cloud on my site. It looks quiet ugly and i got a quiet high bounce rate, so I was wondering if I remove it, is the chance high my site will drop in rankings?
     
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    Mountaineer

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    According to my knowledge, tag cloud reduces the bounce rate. Dunno why its opposite for you. Did you try to change its position/size before completely removing it?
     
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    aldragon

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    It increases the number of indexed pages though it has some SEO value you just have to filter the most important ones and leave the others not showing.
     
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    poshtiger

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    A lot of the time a tag cloud = too many on page links though...

    Can devalue the real content!