Search Cloud Tag - Help or Hurt?

[combs84]

OK so I found a cool tool in which I can dump a large amount of keywords into and it will make a nice cloud tag. The text is of all the events that people will probably be searching for.

The Results are here when you scroll down the page under popular tags:

Cincinnati Tickets - Buy Concerts Sports and Theatre tickets

Essentially what it is, is a large amount of code that i will paste in a second with maybe 70 links all going to the same place? These pages will be throughout the Cincinnati directory like on pages such as these:

Bogarts Cincinnati Tickets - Buy Rock Concert tickets

While also on that page, you can see I have the old search cloud I hand made with some tables and a couple of key links going to different places.

My question is obviously, which option is better? Will the cloud of 50 links all pointing to the same links eventually just come back to hurt me? If I pointed them to different places by hand, would that be much better?

I have been trying to be SEO friendly last few weeks, and am just wondering my best option. If it is none of the above...feel free to suggest something else as well.

P.S. I'm really not concerned about it from a looks perspective. I have yet to adjust the sizes for the newly amounted links in the cloud, so it will probably look better afterward.

 

[hazelg]

I don't see that tag cloud you're saying

 

[combs84]

It's at the bottom right. You don't see all of those links?

 

[andr69]

If the tag cloud is correst and corresponds with the main topic of the site so it can be quite useful.

 

[Timewarp]

50 links to the same place is going to look like spam because its far from natural...that is not a proper tag cloud.

 

[BlueSkyCamping]

I have to say that I don't think it looks great but maybe it'll work for you?