Viewing Tags Using Tag Clouds on Wordpress

For every blogger and website owners out there, tags aren’t new. They know that these though not required, had been essential parts of their every post. Why? Well basically, in computer jargon, tags are non-hierarchical keywords given to articles, posts, images, internet bookmarks or any bit of information. They are generally hyperlinks that lead to a compilation of items that are connected with it. These tags which can be selected personally and casually by its creator and even by its viewers if allowed by the network, are descriptors of your data and allow it to be located again through searching or browsing. They aid classification and are a way of helping viewers to find content on your page.

Consequently, as to further help your viewers in finding content on your page, you need to add a tag cloud on it. A tag cloud is a visual collection of tags with their corresponding weights which depends on how frequent you have used them. More often, weights of these tags regularly used are illustrated in larger fonts or otherwise accentuated and the displayed order is basically alphabetical, therefore allowing probing a tag via alphabet and via popularity.  Typically, tag cloud may contain 30-150 tags (Tagclouds). Tag clouds are interactive, which means, tags are hyperlinked therefore permitting the user to surf on the data. When selecting a tag from a tag cloud, it usually leads to a collection of posts connected in it.

These tag clouds are illustrated using inline HTML elements. Thus, you are able to control how they would appear as to their order, either alphabetical or random, how they are sorted according to their weights and more. You can also huddle your tags semantically so that comparable tags appear close by. Then, heuristics can be utilized to decrease the dimension of your tag cloud either you are trying to group the tags or not.
That means, you can customize your tag cloud. All you just need is a tag cloud generator (which we will discuss separately) and a little knowledge on HTML.

Since tag clouds uses HTML and the tags’ range is only within the page, then, for you to indicate that the linked-to page acts as a tag for the current context use the rel attribute value “tag” (i.e., rel=“tag”). The rel=“tag” is exclusively designed for “tagging” content, naturally web pages or portions of it, like blog posts. It is NOT designed for “tagging” random URLs or external content. Although there is demand for an all-purpose decentralized syntax for tagging URLs external to the current page it is beyond the scope of our tags. So basically you cannot use this to help you in taking the top rank on search engines. Nonetheless, it is still essential since your viewers can have the ease of finding related posts.

So look for a cloud generator now, create your tag cloud, customized it, and start collecting your tags for a happy probing in your blog. Make the life of your readers easy.

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List Of The Best Adsense Wordpress Plugins

Like it or not, many blogs survive thanks to Google AdSense – a fact that’s leading some to debate the use of ad blocking software. However, implementing and tweaking AdSense ads on a Wordpress (WordPress) blog can be tedious. We’ve gathered 17 Wordpress plugins which help you implement, control and overview AdSense ads on your blog.

Adsense Deluxe – probably the most popular and perhaps the best AdSense plugin out there, AdSense Deluxe lets you automatically insert ads (it works with Yahoo ads, too) into your posts or pages. Very configurable and yet simple to use. (at the time of this writing, the official link for this plugin is dead. Hopefully, it’s just temporary.)

AdSense Widget for Wordpress Sidebar – Add AdSense to your Wordpress sidebar in the form of a widget.

Shylock AdSense – another plugin for easy integration of AdSense ads into your blog; has an interesting feature that lets you set particular ads into blog posts which are more than X days old.

Adsense Injection – random Adsense injection into your blog.

AdMan – integrates ads directly inside your blog posts. Compatible with AdSense.

AdSense Manager – a fully featured AdSense manager. Use the latest version only, as older versions had some issues with the AdSense terms and conditions.

AdRotator – afraid of adblindness? AdRotator rotates (doh!) your AdSense ads, and combines them with other advertising programs.

AdSense Attachment – display extra content, like images, in a new page together with AdSense ads.

MightyAdsense – display AdSense ads without modifying the templates. Has a preview for ads in the Wordpress control panel.

Google Ad Wrap – show that pesky Google spider what content on your blog is really important.

Adsense Inline – another plugin that makes inserting AdSense into your blog posts really easy.

Adsense Beautifier – places images next to your AdSense ads, which should increase the clickthrough rate. Be very careful with this one, as there’s some controversy over whether this violates the AdSense T&C.

Author Adsense – split revenue between several blog authors on the same blog.

Author Adsense MU plugin – same as Author AdSense, only commercial and aimed only at Wordpress MU (Multi User) users.

AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System – another revenue sharing plugin for AdSense on Wordpress. Also shows you your earnings in real time.

Adsense Earnings Wordpress Plugin – always be in control of your AdSense earnings, right from the Wordpress Admin panel.

WP-AdsenseProfit – another plugin that shows you your AdSense earnings in real time.

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