In my last post I talked about how a simple tweak can reduce your bounce rate in two minutes. I added few more suggestion and asked readers to come up with there ideas. Eranda at Antharjalaya commented and suggested that I add a tag cloud and after adding it I got some nice stumble traffic to test and compare my results , and from the initial results it was a success.  I know that two days of testing is not a good way to come to a conclusion but the early signs are very positive.The tag cloud I added was not the default WordPress tag cloud but the nice looking flash tag cloud provided by WP-Cumulus plug in. Its not that hard to see why it was successful because the tag cloud looks very..... click-able . I added it in single page view and just after the post so it has a fair chance of getting noticed.

Installing and configuring

Installing is just like any other WordPress plug-in , you upload the necessary files to your plug-in's folder and go activate the plug-in in the plug-in list. What makes this plug-in stand out from the rest is the ability to configure it to your exact requirements.

• Three ways to display the cloud - You can display the tag cloud in three ways. You can add it as a widget ( easiest option but might not look good in a three column theme ) , you can create a page and add a tag or you can insert the PHP function that display the tag cloud anywhere in your theme.
• You can specify the height , width , background color , text color and rotation speed.
• You can also specify which tags include or exclude. This is very useful if you do a miscellaneous post here and there that is not really related to the your blogs niche.

Drawbacks

• It generates a list of dofollow links to tag pages. If you have lots of tags this means lots of links in a single page which some search engines might not handle.

If you are not a WordPress user its not all doom and gloom for you. The FAQ page for the plug-in at WordPress have some nice links on how to add this in blogspot , Drupal , Typepad etc. If you are already using a tag cloud this is definitely a alternative that you should try out. Now go click on those tags