3 Effective and Visually Appealing Label Clouds for Blogger

Are you tired of the generic & boring option Blogger provides for adding labels to your blog? If you are looking to add a nice, visually pleasing label cloud to your site, I found 3 excellent options. I’m a big fan of each & I’m currently using 2 of the 3 on my sites.

Label Clouds provide a better visual method of displaying your tags and labels on your blog. It enables readers to click tags & find your categorized posts. In searching the web, I chose the 3 best options I found that are very useful & appealing. You can also fully customize each. The instructions are very straight forward, but I recommend taking a look at the “Key Considerations Prior to Installing,” below before proceeding.

1. Phydeaux3′s Label Cloud (Works with New Blogger)
Phydeaux3 provides detailed instructions to install and customize this label cloud. My favorite feature of this label cloud is it displays number of posts as you scroll over each label.

2. Blogger Buster – Blogumus A Flash Animated Label Cloud (Works with Blogger)
Blogger Buster shows you how to install & customize this animated flash-based label cloud that was based off a WordPress plug-in. It’s very visually appealing & the easiest of the 3 to install. The tags swirl using a circular motion & looks great! I installed it and am using it at Eazy Entertainment.

3. Compender – A Simple Blogger Tag Cloud (Works with Blogger)
This a simple, yet effective Label Cloud that I chose to use on Eazy Cheezy. I like the simplicity of it and it was exactly what I was looking for.

Key Considerations Prior to Installing;
1. Add the “Labels” Gadget prior to installing any of the below. To add “Labels,” login to Blogger, click “Layout” & “Add a Gadget.”

Find “Labels ” & click the + to Add it to your template.

2. Always Backup Your Template. To do this, click on the Layout Tab, then Edit HTML. You’ll then find the “Download Full Template” option. You can save the full template to your computer.

The label clouds can enhance your reader’s experience by giving them an easier way to search your previous posts. They are much more visually appealing than the default blogger labels. Perhaps the most difficult task is properly labeling your posts. I’m in the process of going back to my earliest posts & tagging in a more effective and smarter way. When I started blogging, I didn’t know what I was doing with the tags. Hope you find this helpful. If you have any other great label clouds you’d like to recommend, please feel free to share.