Geo-tagging is a way of tagging a website to describe it's location.
This is particularly useful in the case of say a restaurant or hotel website or any other webpage that is about business in a specific location. If a page is tagged, other websites and search engines will recognise its position. You will most likely get better rankings for localised search requests.
Geo-tagging uses latitude and longitude coordinates.
One of the simplest ways to tag a page is to add meta tags in the page header using the following syntax:
meta name="geo.placename" content="New York, NY, USA"
meta name="geo.position" content="40.757929;-73.985506"
meta name="geo.region" content="US-NY"
(The numbers above are latitide and longitude coordinates).
If you are not sure what your location coordinates are, you can find it on a map the following website and generate your tags: Mygeoposition.com
Increasingly as mobile phone users take their world with them in their pocket, a user's location will be an important point of reference and can be triangulated from GPS technology to nearby businesses and services on the web.
Consider that the iPhone (estimated to have 500,000 users in the UK by the end of the year) has Google Maps built-in.
Giving a site a location in cyber-space has never been more important. If a business has a locations it needs to communicate that address to the wider world.
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Thursday, 15 November 2007
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
Everyscape - 3D Restaurant Interiors
Just saw this new site in beta. www.everyscape.com
Defintely worth checking out. It's a mapping site with a difference. You can browse a location as if you are inside it. You can walk into a restaurant in New York City and walk past the diners to the back, turn around and walk out again. Kind of like those 3D virtuals tours. Nothing new right? Wrong. This time you get to walk out the resturant, along the street and check out another building by going in the front door. Very cool.
You also get to see the 2D map to the right in a side panel to see where you are walking.
They've got trial versions of 4 US cities at the moment.
There's some pretty interesting revenue opportunities here for them if it takes off. Hoteliers, ticket brokers, restaurant booking agents, travel agents, they'll all want to get linked it if gets critical mass.
Defintely worth checking out. It's a mapping site with a difference. You can browse a location as if you are inside it. You can walk into a restaurant in New York City and walk past the diners to the back, turn around and walk out again. Kind of like those 3D virtuals tours. Nothing new right? Wrong. This time you get to walk out the resturant, along the street and check out another building by going in the front door. Very cool.
You also get to see the 2D map to the right in a side panel to see where you are walking.
They've got trial versions of 4 US cities at the moment.
There's some pretty interesting revenue opportunities here for them if it takes off. Hoteliers, ticket brokers, restaurant booking agents, travel agents, they'll all want to get linked it if gets critical mass.
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