So I used to work for this crazy smart lady named Gini. She writes a blog. And runs a business.
And, although her blog is called Spin Sucks, I thought today’s post was super relevant to my more design-inclined readership.
Right now, she’s at Search Engine Strategies 2010 with my former colleague and good friend Molli. And they’re sharing their key takeaways from the conference, which I’ve been trying desperately to keep up with.
But none of it really fit within the scope of this blog until today. Because today I created something pretty, which also happens to be quite telling.
Here’s the segment that got my wheels turning:
There are free tools to figure out where your SEO stands right now. Go to Wordle right
now and type in “www.spinsucks.com” to the URL block. You’ll see we do a fairly nice job with SEO because all of the things we discuss here come up in the tag cloud (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, share, content, value, etc.). Now go back and type in your company name or your blog’s URL. What comes up in the tag cloud? How is your organic search?
Now, I’ve used Wordle before. But I never thought of it as a tool to analyze Covet Chicago.
So elegantly simply right? Of course, I had to try it.
Sadly, Wordle seems to emphasize (or only pull from) your homepage. And, I kind of talked about gross things this week.
But I’m still pretty happy with mine.
If you try this, please include a link and share it! I’m really curious to learn if Wordle illuminates anything for you.
I think that looks super cool! What a fun tool, I think, and it’s applicable to any site that has an RSS feed. When Avinash spoke, he used Gatorade as the example. The word “Gatorade” was huge and then you could read “Jordan” and “Tiger Woods”, but that was all you could read. There were a lot of tiny words. So interesting because that shows Gatorade isn’t doing anything with search. And it wasn’t nearly as pretty as your Wordle!
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P.S. When I read this post I thought it said, “crazy lady Gini” and missed the “smart” part. HAHAHAAHA!
Uhoh! Next time I’ll hyphenate…crazy-smart lady!
wow. that is awesome. so much fun and all the things that you can edit… whoooo. you can even create a wall-art piece with words you like. yiihaaa. like it. thanks for that. it made my day even happier :-)
Very cool! I’ll have to try this out.
I LOVE wordle for creating cool pix…but I had NO idea you could do something with URL’s. That’s so cool!! I love yours btw :) I gotta go try this out! I like that right in the center of yours it says “guy closet” :) makes it sound like you have a closet full of lads!!