Geo Tags for Local Search

[djbaxter]

How To Optimize Your Site for Local Search
September 18, 2009

Geo Tags
Geotags help search engines to locate you on the map and this may help on local search queries. Classic geotags are a combination of Latitude and Longitude for your city.

To find the latitude and longitude of your city, see MyGeoPosition.com - Free address geocoding / geo-metatags / geotags / kml files!

Here is an example for Ottawa, Ontario, Canada:

< meta name="geo.position" content="45.423494;-75.697933">
< meta name=”geo.placename" content="Ottawa, Ontario, Canada">
< meta name=”"geo.region" content="Ontario-CA">

Remove space added after < and before "meta name>.

 

[bigcat1967]

WOW! Thanks Minstrel! I just got a client last week from Boston and we're concentrating on local search. I'll take this advice and see what happens. Thx again!