A catalogue of my discoveries in software development and related subjects, that I think might be of use or interest to everyone else, or to me when I forget what I did!
Keyword Density Cloud
Saturday, 25 April 2009
The 'keyword density cloud' was a nice little widget I worked on at work, to provide a graphical 'tag cloud like' analysis of the keyword density for a given web page.
It can be used by SEO concious writers to quickly examine what a page of content may appear to be about (to search engines) based on the 'top words' and the relative strength of those top words, but is also a nice overview of the page content to end users.
For example:
You can use the widget on any page that has a publicly accessible URL by simply pasting in the following javascript:
You can modify the parameters for 'DrawTagCloud', which are as follows:
DrawTagCloud(width, height, bgColor, textColor1, textColor2, maxWords)
Yes even I spell 'colour' as 'color' in code :\
As you may have guessed from the names used, the output is given using the WP-Cumulus WordPress plugin Flash component.
Care should be taken when pasting the code into blogging software, such as Blogger, that no '<br>' tags are inserted into the javascript.
It can be used by SEO concious writers to quickly examine what a page of content may appear to be about (to search engines) based on the 'top words' and the relative strength of those top words, but is also a nice overview of the page content to end users.
For example:
You can use the widget on any page that has a publicly accessible URL by simply pasting in the following javascript:
<div id="wmgcumulus">
<!--This link needs to be included for the keyword density tool to work properly.-->
<a href="http://www.webmarketinggroup.co.uk/" target="_blank">SEO</a> Keyword Density by WMG
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://cumulus.wmg.uk.com/wmgcumulus.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
DrawTagCloud(400,200,'ffffff','0x000000','0xc0c0c0',30);
</script>
</div>
You can modify the parameters for 'DrawTagCloud', which are as follows:
DrawTagCloud(width, height, bgColor, textColor1, textColor2, maxWords)
Yes even I spell 'colour' as 'color' in code :\
As you may have guessed from the names used, the output is given using the WP-Cumulus WordPress plugin Flash component.
Care should be taken when pasting the code into blogging software, such as Blogger, that no '<br>' tags are inserted into the javascript.