Wordle - Useful and Way Too Much Fun Tool

I have gone absolutely bonkers over Wordle!

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It’s good tool for a visual look at your keywords, especially if you run it on a single post or web site page. Think you’re hitting your keywords? Run a Wordle and you can visually see exactly what words are actually the most important in your content.

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Thing is, it’s so much fun addictive changing the very cool fonts and design of the results that the usefulness almost goes by the wayside. I’ve decided to share my discovery so you can drive yourself nuts, too.

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I ran a Wordle on the Diva - the results shown are from the home page, which has excerpts from my most recent posts. Look at all the awesome variations I made by hitting the “randomizer” obsessively, and these are only a few of the countless possibilities when you combine colors, fonts, layouts and languages!

And now I need to walk. away. from. the. computer.

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13 Comments

  1. Posted October 10, 2008 at 3:24 am | Permalink

    cool………how you make it?

  2. Posted October 10, 2008 at 5:39 am | Permalink

    In fact what’s the point in packaging the keywords so beautifully and showing he same? If it was for tags, may be it makes sense… As for keywords, probably only you (as a blogger/web master) want to see it right?

    Cheers.
    Ajith

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  3. Posted October 10, 2008 at 2:58 pm | Permalink

    @Ajith Edassery - Right, but it’s still fun. You could make one of tags - just set up a page with all your tags and Wordle it. Oh great, see what you did? Now I have to go try that!

  4. Posted October 10, 2008 at 2:58 pm | Permalink

    @daphnekong - just go to wordle.net and type in a URL.

  5. Posted October 10, 2008 at 6:53 pm | Permalink

    nice tips, thank you very much

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  6. Posted October 11, 2008 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

    I really need to stay away from that LOL

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  7. Posted October 11, 2008 at 8:45 pm | Permalink

    Another neat tool to use. Thanks for the posts. I will try it out in a few moments to see if I know what it will say.

    Eric- New Orleans Cos last blog post..French Quarter Condos-837 Royal Street-The Lush Tropical Courtyard gets an A+.

  8. Posted October 12, 2008 at 4:26 am | Permalink

    Wordle is a cool site for generating word clouds. I’ve been playing around with Wordle.

  9. Posted October 14, 2008 at 5:01 am | Permalink

    This looks like so much fun. Thanks for the heads up. Off to play!

  10. Posted October 15, 2008 at 7:14 am | Permalink

    Wow it seems to be a great tool. Thanks for the update !

  11. Posted October 15, 2008 at 12:55 pm | Permalink

    i dunno… i still think my favorite use is for generating t-shirt designs, posters and mouse pads. just write up a keyword list, spend 30 minutes tinkering, save, repeat.

    michelles last blog post..Wordle and the Horrible Landing Page

  12. Posted October 21, 2008 at 4:37 am | Permalink

    Is there a plugin which extracts the keywords similar to Wordle so that I can have it as my Tag Cloud?

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  13. Posted October 21, 2008 at 11:01 am | Permalink

    Arun - I’m not aware of a Wordle plugin, although it would be cool, but I really like the Cumulous Cloud plugin.

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