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Quick Tag Cloud.

I’m thinking something when I read Darren’s (not Darren Rowse okay) blog today.
He’s doing his own experiment about Quick Tag Cloud for his blog’s content. I wonder how he get this kind of idea because I never think of it before.

As an SEO experiment, I started tagging (in addition to the categories at left) my blog posts about, I don’t know, 15 months ago. It’s impossible to measure precisely, but I don’t think it’s had a significant effect. Last month tag-based pages only got 823 page views, and a mere 123 visitors came from Technorati. There may be unknown ancillary SEO benefits to tagging, but now I just enjoy inventing peculiar descriptors for my posts (see, for example, .

Keep in mind that this only reflects, maybe, one-eighth of all the posts on this site. There’s no frickin’ way I’m going back and manually tagging the other 4000-odd posts.

Now that’s what I called a genius.

Darren, you just show me another good way on how to learn SEO for my blog. So guys, if you want to try on your own, just head over to his the page here.

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