Jeff Woelker : Chicago SEO, SEM, and Social Media Consultant

I’ve seen lots of these graphical word representations all over the web lately, but didn’t know where they were coming from. I recently found out at a BMA breakfast with Steve Rubel that they are created by a website called Wordle. Wordle looks at web content and aggregates it, counts it, and presents it in a number of different ways, based on a user’s preferences. The size of the word represents the number of times it was mentioned in a given block of text. You can rotate, change the layout, the color, the font, and the size of the words. It makes for a really handy conversation analysis tool and, my favorite part, some pretty geeky word art. Here’s a Wordle I generated from my own blog.