{"id":642,"date":"2014-06-15T23:56:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T22:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2014-06-16T20:53:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T19:53:13","slug":"642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/642\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Clouds for Phoenix Game Development.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been working my way through some online training provided by Social Talent.<\/a> This is aimed mostly at the recruitment field, but there is a lot of useful information about Search Engine Optimisation, and profile (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc) optimisation. One of the tools I have learned about is Wordle<\/a>. This website is a free resource which takes a URL or a block of text and produces a customisable “word cloud”, showing the relative frequency that each word appears in the text.<\/p>\n

This is very useful for SEO, since search engines will look at the frequency of a particular word when prioritising results. Using a word cloud\u00a0 for an article, or a blog post in my case, make it very easy to see which keywords will be given more weight by a search engine for that post. This can then be modified (by changing the wording of the post) to target a particular demographic or search result.<\/p>\n

The word cloud can also turn up some unexpected results, for example, this one is a word cloud for THIS<\/a> post (Visibility Animation Tutorial with 3DS Max):<\/p>\n

\"Wordle:<\/a><\/p>\n

Shows that the keyword “ScreenHunter” is prominent for this blog post, much more so that a lot of other, more relevant keywords. ScreenHunter is the name of the program I used to take screen shots for my blog posts, and it appends each screenshot with the word “Screenhunter” and then the date. Since I don’t normally rename the screenshots, every time I make a post containing images, I am essentially advertising that program to google, and de-emphasing the actual subject of the post.<\/p>\n

In future therefore, if I was to rename each image with a post-specific title, I could increase the visibility of that post on google.<\/p>\n

Word clouds also provide a visually impressive graphic of the subject of the post. Some more word clouds I have created follow.<\/p>\n

Icarus Rocket Calculator App: (LINK<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Wordle:<\/a><\/p>\n

Paid Virtual Private Server Hosting for Game Developers\/Gamers: (LINK<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Wordle:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been working my way through some online training provided by Social Talent. This is aimed mostly at the recruitment field, but there is a lot of useful information about Search Engine Optimisation, and profile (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc) optimisation. One of the tools I have learned about is Wordle. This website is a free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}