Comments on: Seeing is believing: measuring SEO and visualizing results with Wordle Word Clouds http://www.heidicool.com/blog/2009/03/06/measuringseo/ web • content • marketing • navigation • seo • social media Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Will White http://www.heidicool.com/blog/2009/03/06/measuringseo/comment-page-1/#comment-90625 Will White Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:05:11 +0000 http://www.heidicool.com/blog/?p=272#comment-90625 Great tip on the Wordle front: I'd never even heard of that before! SEO really is a complicated beast and it's always great to hear new useful information (as opposed to the vast amount of copy-and-paste sh*t [if you'll excuse my language] that is spammed across the 'net!). Thanks! I'll be bookmarking your site :) ]]> By: Heidi Cool http://www.heidicool.com/blog/2009/03/06/measuringseo/comment-page-1/#comment-25066 Heidi Cool Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:46:28 +0000 http://www.heidicool.com/blog/?p=272#comment-25066 <p>Eduard,<br /> Thanks for the feedback and for writing your article about rankings! Your mention of sidebars is a good point to remember. Many of our sites will have certain words or phrases that repeat across multiple pages. These could be common elements in headers and navigation bars as well as the sidebars. I think this is particularly true in many Wordpress installations where it is common to include archives or category lists in the sidebars. </p> <p>This is a good reminder that any tools we use to automate or simplify our analysis still require our own human interpretation to produce accurate and useful findings. Great tip about the KGEN plug-in too. I have that installed as well. It's a good way to get a quick picture of the words that are being used on a page. </p> Eduard,
Thanks for the feedback and for writing your article about rankings! Your mention of sidebars is a good point to remember. Many of our sites will have certain words or phrases that repeat across multiple pages. These could be common elements in headers and navigation bars as well as the sidebars. I think this is particularly true in many WordPress installations where it is common to include archives or category lists in the sidebars.

This is a good reminder that any tools we use to automate or simplify our analysis still require our own human interpretation to produce accurate and useful findings. Great tip about the KGEN plug-in too. I have that installed as well. It's a good way to get a quick picture of the words that are being used on a page.

]]> By: Eduard Blacquière http://www.heidicool.com/blog/2009/03/06/measuringseo/comment-page-1/#comment-25046 Eduard Blacquière Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:26:02 +0000 http://www.heidicool.com/blog/?p=272#comment-25046 Good article, especially the visualization with Wordle. However things like sidebars etc. can give an unrealistic image of the keyword targeting. This concept is enhanced in this Firefox plugin, which I recommend: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4788 Ps. thanks for linking to my article about measuring SEO, appreciated! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4788 Ps. thanks for linking to my article about measuring SEO, appreciated!]]> By: RandomReTweet (Random Re-Tweet) http://www.heidicool.com/blog/2009/03/06/measuringseo/comment-page-1/#comment-1953 RandomReTweet (Random Re-Tweet) Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:18:41 +0000 http://www.heidicool.com/blog/?p=272#comment-1953 <strong>Twitter Comment...</strong> RT @JDEbberly RT @hacool: @SarahFowler @DionnaSanchez I've also used word clouds to visualize my SEO results - [link to post] #blo ... - Posted using Chat Catcher ... Twitter Comment... RT @JDEbberly RT @hacool: @SarahFowler @DionnaSanchez I've also used word clouds to visualize my SEO results - [link to post] #blo ... - Posted using Chat Catcher ...]]> By: Tashfeen http://www.heidicool.com/blog/2009/03/06/measuringseo/comment-page-1/#comment-1577 Tashfeen Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:59:14 +0000 http://www.heidicool.com/blog/?p=272#comment-1577 Hi Heidi, nice post as usual!