MarketUP: Marketing & PR Services

What's in a word? Plenty, if you write enough of them. After reading about Wordle on the Social Media Examiner blog, under ideas for generating content - I just had to try it out for myself. I plugged in the URL for my MarketUP Musings, and this is what came up. I spent a few minutes picking the fonts and colors - to coordinate with our site colors.

It was really easy to do and instantaneous. I could probably waste a lot of time playing with many more word combinations. I have a graphic design background, including the study of typography, so I enjoy seeing how it can be used to create patterns and interest.

But equally interesting is seeing which words are picked out of my stream of writing to be empasized. 'Goldilocks' got major prominence, even though I wrote just one post with that title. However, I included several links with that name in them too - so it carried a lot of weight.

When you are writing copy for a website and want to know how well you are doing with keywords or phrases that you want your readers to find - run it by Wordle and see what comes up. It might surprise you.

--Donna