Using Tag (Keyword) Clouds For Visual Sales and Information Directories

I have been working on an interesting way of displaying content by word density called Tag Clouds. They have been around a while but Im slow to catch on. Of course I do think of new ways to use them. LOL

Ok now just so you know what I am talking about you will need to look over to the left hand side of my blog <-----over there and scroll down.

There are two tag clouds there. The first one is for the blog, people can click on anything and find those posts. The second is for my eBay store. People can click on a word and find matching items.

Both these "clouds" as they are called are put together using a formula which makes fonts bigger for higher mentions of words and phrases etc. They both will update automatically as well as items come and go (supposedly).

It is running off the eBay RSS feed (which up until tonight was pumping out only the word "Wednesday" which is why I couldnt get it to work LOL)

Keep in mind I do need to refine this some I can adjust colors and size and also exclude words etc. But give the basic store visualization would you agree that it might give you a very quick idea of what is in the store if you were a new buyer or someone just looking at that list from a blog?

I felt that this was true, but I wanted your thoughts -Please post your comments!!

One seller on eBay posts about making lists and posting them everywhere. I know it sounds basic but I have heard about this very basic game plan working but thought the list was good but not good enough as it was hard to navigate. A clickable tag cloud however might be appealing in this sense that they suggested to broadcast.

Here are some advantages I see here.

1- It adds tons of clickables to blogs (couldnt get it to work on the Squid lens yet still working on that)

2- I can use Vflyer.com (check them out) to create a flier that is free and can go to all the free classifieds sites.

3- The list is always updated so wherever it is, there it will change.

4-It appears Zoom renders their own pre-page before the customer gets to the eBay page which nicely lists all the items that match the click.

I am working on ways to bring people in that dont involve them having to know what they are searching for.

I wanted to integrate it on a custom page in the store but dont think it will work there due to the scripting but there are plenty of places to use it.

So how did I come across this? Well first I noticed Squidoo had a tag cloud, but more importantly I saw a site where people listed what they would like to do with their lives and I learned almost everyone wanted See the Northern Lights and of course lose weight , quit smoking etc etc. It was interesting to see the density of the thoughts of 900,000 people all interested in many of the same things.

In any case please offer your thoughts.