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Wordle – Useful and Way Too Much Fun Tool

9 October 2008 11 Comments

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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  • http://7th-hhtconference2007.com/ daphnekong

    cool………how you make it?

    • http://www.seodiva.net Seo Diva

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

  • http://www.dollarshower.com Ajith Edassery

    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

    Ajith Edasserys last blog post..Compete.com – Traffic and site analytics solution

  • http://www.seodiva.net Seo Diva

    @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!

  • http://www.neworleanscondotrends.com Eric- New Orleans Co

    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+.

  • http://www.petcaregt.com Care Pet

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

  • http://www.MainLinePaToday.com Judy Peterson

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

  • http://www.resultsfoundation.com/ XL Roger Hamilton

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

  • http://metricvoodoo.com michelle

    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

  • http://read2know.com Arun

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

    Aruns last blog post..Cracking online examinations made easy

    • http://www.seodiva.net Seo Diva

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