Entering search tags specifics?

[Ryan]

My dad is creating a website for his caricature business that's almost never kicked off. I want to know about his tags. He's decided that meta tags are too difficult and is just going to make a tag cloud at the bottom of his page.

If he already has : (First name), (Last name), (Location)

Will he benefit from then having: (First name) (Last name), Or (First name) (Location, Or (First name) (Last name) (Location)

For example, say he has "Eat" "Pie" and "Now" as keywords.

Does he benefit at all by then having combinations of his keywords? "Eat pie" "Eat now" "Pie now"

[Jake]

It's probably not all that important, tag clouds can be seen by search engines as SEO spam, as is "keyword stuffing", the unnatural frequent use of particular phrases. Perhaps you have he wrong platform, most blog platforms, about the easiest way to build a web site have easy forms for identifying post tags, which can pay off in a big way when you have hundreds of pages people want to sort by some tag. Take some time and think up lists of primariry and secondary features that could describe a particular caricature, like male, female, political, education, salesman, businessman, angry, sad (not necessarily single words, having a standardized list in advance makes for more coherent keywords and tagging.
Before it's scheduled removal try entering caricature into the Googke keyword tool and see what phrases it thinks are associated, to get better search performance take those higher volume keywords as tag suggestions.
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

[Richard]

It doesn't matter anyway. With the recent case studies, you should be focusing on how you can deal with the latest revisions.