Weekend Projects – Geotagging Your Site

Published on May 17, 2009   //  Weekend Projects
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Weekend Project

Last week we worked on adding keywords to our sites so we can improve search engine ranking for those keywords. As the Internet evolves you will see more people wanting to do local searches and one way they will be doing that is through Geotagging. This week we will add Geotags to our site making it so search engines that use Geotagging will be able to direct the proper traffic to our site.

All of the Geotags go into the head section of your home page (between <HEAD> and </HEAD>). To begin open your home page in your favorite editor. The first one to add is your Longitude and Latitude using geo.position…

<meta name=”geo.position” content=”49.11;-122.68″ />
<meta name=”ICBM” content=”49.11,-122.68″ />

If you have a GPS finding your Longitude and Latitude is pretty easy. If you do not have that surf over to maporama.com and enter your address. The site will provide you the details to enter in the above tag. Next add the following tags which are pretty self explanatory…

<meta name=”DC.title” content=”Your Site Name” />
<meta name=”geo.country” content=”CA” />
<meta name=”geo.region” content=”CA-BC” />
<meta name=”geo.placename” content=”Surrey, BC V3S 8Z6, Canada” />

For the geo.country and geo.region be sure to use ISO 3166 standard codes. The next part uses the Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names. Go to their site and enter in your City into the Find Name box and enter City into the Place Type. If they do not list your town try entering the largest local city. Once you find your city you will see an ID which you can copy and paste into the the following tag…

<meta name=”tgn.id” content=”7013135″ />

Like above the bellow should be added and are self explanatory…

<meta name=”tgn.name” content=”Surrey” />
<meta name=”tgn.nation” content=”Canada” />

Save your page and upload. Now that you have these details you can submit your page to GeoURL and GeoTags. If your adding these details to your blog you can add your blog to feedmap. I also found a Geotagging WordPress plugin which you can install as well.

If you get stuck let me know in the comments.

4 Comments to “Weekend Projects – Geotagging Your Site”

  • blogadmin
    April 26, 2008 11:14 am

    I tested the geotagging plugin and it does not do what I thought it did. I will keep it in the post for those that want to know about GeoTagging and wish to read up about the wordpress plugin.

    If you have a blog you will need to add the information to your header.php file in your theme.

  • chuks ugoji
    April 26, 2008 2:34 pm

    Thanks so much for your informations,they are always pretty vital.

  • Matt
    April 30, 2008 9:34 pm

    You can also GeoTag your FeedBurner feed under “Optimize > GeoTag Your Feed”.

  • bowling balls
    May 18, 2009 9:38 am

    I don’t know what most of the things that you are talking about mean. However I am glad that you wrote about geotagging so I can forward you post to the person that is in charge of my website. thanks again

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