Ive always been apt to keeping up with the trends in web site development, and I think tag clouds are one of the more imaginative things to come out of Web2.0, often associated with the emergence of internet powerhouses like flickr and Ebay. Now, Ive always been fond of tag clouds but hadnt found a lot of use for them until recently. Questions like How can I use tag clouds to my advantage? and Does this superficially random set of data mean anything? were ones I wrestled with. Of course, unless you know what you're looking for, you might miss a tag cloud!

Websites like del.icio.us, flickr and techcrunch are places where you can find some of the most prominent tag clouds.

These web domains provide acute insights into what people are thinking, and tagging, about in an up to date fashion. The premise is people tag sites, photos and blogs with meaningful keywords, and then, they become publicly available. You can glance at topics by tags that other people have divided various materials under. Furthermore, as tags are filtered into different buckets, the size of the tag grows as its popularity increases. Practical uses include seeing what phenomenon people are taking pictures of or blogging about.

AuctionCloud.com and Newzingo are a couple of other noteworthy web sites taking advantage of the flexible marketing clout tag clouds can muster. The first allows you view popular searches on Ebay, while the latter keeps you updated on the top Google News stories. In the always highly contested battlefield of internet marketing, tag clouds like AuctionCloud.com can provide financially beneficial spawning ground for web site design.

Some tools that I determined to be useful are TagCrowd.com which allows you to paste in your own text, maybe news article,an email,etc, and see a cloud view of the word density, and CloudAlicio.us which is an clever time archive of del.icio.us bookmarks.

Take a second and investigate some of these new internet marketing tools and examine their data to see what types of internet marketing insight and trends you can spot to augment the vision for your blueprint for success.

Segovia Smith
Internet Marketing Expert
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