Week 2 (B) Assignment - Tag Clouds

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Tag clouds are not new forms of tags but they are to me since I did not know what their were until now, I had never created one. They serve as presentation techniques that are inserted as an explanation to web resources . Tag clouds are defined as visualization of word frequency. Cloud tags are just fun visual presentation of of words that can be shaped and sized with different fonts and colors.  These kind of tags can be found in advertisements, store displays, book covers, calendars and many other kinds of displays. I see them as colorful distractions placed for you to read and wonder.  It is definitely fun to create. I can imagine placing this kind of tags on posters promoting book events at the library using words that describe the different themes, topics or even titles.  In an attempt to experiment on the different possibilities I created two of these tag clouds to share on this blog. They were easy to create, fun, and gratifying to the eye.  In order to be able to use them on my blog I saved them as picture on my picture file and then transferred them to my blog. 

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Learning more on the use of Tags and Meta Tags

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of reading Shannon’s blog on Tags and Meta Tags so I decided to look into it and get my blog page with its own description in hopes that in the future, I will get people interested in my blog. Although this blog will be used for this class, I plan to expand on it and hope to make it a permanent blog where I can write about my traveling experiences and shared with others as a librarian what I learned on each trip. Hopefully I will be able to share the history, food, culture, language, books, music art in a fun, interesting and professional way for everyone to enjoy.

More on about Tags

 I knew nothing about tags until I took this course and as I was preparing myself to follow the instructions on how to develop the tags for my blog, I discovered the following. I was amaze at the different tags and their description. There is a title tag, description meta tag, keywords meta tag, robots meta tag, and charset meta tag. Each of these tags have a specific function some are obsolete but it is interesting to learn from each one. These are all webmaster tools and unless you have created your own web page or have some programming experience, you may have missed out on the use of Tags. 

  

The Title Tag - are not meta tag, the title tag serves to identify each individual pages content and link to other websites.

The Description Meta Tag – It tells the search engine what your page or site is about and it also helps to get people to visit your site.

The Keywords Meta Tag – This tag is practically obsolete but for information purposes there is one search engine that still uses it “Bing” and it is for the purpose of detecting spam. I read that it is best not to use it at all.

Robots Meta Tag – Is considered one of the most important tags. It lets your specify that a particular page should not be indexed by a search engine and also if you do or do not want links on the page followed.

The Charset Tag – All sites in the U.S. must validate charset, that is the UTF-8 tag in order to deliver HTML using English characters.

A very important markup format is rich snippets. Rich Snippets are the descriptions that appear under every search result; they are designed to give users a sense of what on the page and is relevancy to their query.