Comments on: Geoblogging – How to Geotag Your Blog

By: Kenneth Udut

Kenneth Udut — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:11:35 +0000

I’ve been in love with geotagging ever since I first got wind of it. On http://free.naplesplus.us (Naples, FL USA)- it’s geotagged right to my house, which could be scary, but the publicity of information as it is, why not?

I look forward to more things being geotagged. I’ve been trying to geotag my rss posts, but it’s been a pesty process, mostly because the names/addresses I have on my databases are in a convoluted format that I REALLY must standardize one of these days. Of course, the geotag standards themselves keep changing, so things that were fine a year ago, no longer seem to work. Ah well. It’ll just get better and better over time, won’t it!

Kenneth Udut, Naples, FL simplify3

By: Vinayak

Vinayak — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:31:04 +0000

Now you can Geotag individual post in Blogger It's an interesting new feature in Draft Blogger.

By: hiduptreda

hiduptreda — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:45:19 +0000

wow… amazing!
new knowledge for me, thanks for share…

By: Zealous One

Zealous One — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:32:34 +0000

Awesome post! Finding your post inspired us to seek out more information on geo-tagging which fell directly in line with our geo-targeted SEO. I will say that we saw significant bot activity as soon as we did – and our top keywords took a couple of steps up in 48 hours! The coolest thing we have been getting alot of feedback on is an obscure link on the bottom right (that we use for reciprocal directory links) that links to Google Maps. Seems our visitors are clicking on the “Street View” and talking a “virtual walk of the Las Vegas Strip!” Needless to say, we’re looking into how to integrate it more effectively at present.

Thanks again and when our newest case study in Geo-tagging yields quantifiable results, I’ll be back to give you an update!

By: Glich

Glich — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:59:31 +0000

I don’t get it how to add geotagging in my website. Please help me.

By: SafeLibraries Blog

SafeLibraries Blog — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:09:33 +0000

Thanks for this. I tried it at http://safelibraries.blogspot.com/ and found I could only get one of the three methods to work, and I added the suggested graphic it provided. (GeoURL)

I’m using Blogger, and I found a cut and paste was not enough. I had to correct the HTML to get Blogger to accept the change. I had to use ” instead of the angled quotes, and I had to make sure the comment tags used 2 sequential hyphens and not whatever the cut and paste produced.

Plus one of the links (the last) was 404 but I was able to Google it, only it didn’t work anyway. Or at least I couldn’t figure it out.

In any case, I thank Problogger for this excellent blog. What use a geotag on a blog is I’m not sure, but I learned something in the process. Thanks again.

By: Rob O.

Rob O. — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:00:19 +0000

Malte, maybe you could provide a little additional detail on that? Sounds like something we need to know more about.

By: Malte Landwehr

Malte Landwehr — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:33:50 +0000

When you care about geotagging you should use the address-html tag/microformat as well!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:56:15 +0000

Yup, Rob, I could use the next closest major city, I suppose, being a suburb.

By: Rob O.

Rob O. — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:59:54 +0000

Chris, sure enough, I have wondered about how this could pose a stalking risk. But the geo coordinates you use don’t have to be so precise as to show people the house you live in. You can use a more generic location like a central spot in your neighborhood, suburb, or city.

Zero, Darren may be in scenic Australia, but I’m sitting here in dusty
West Texas! :)

By: Zerolove

Zerolove — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:27:36 +0000

Just curious as to why you used Odessa, Texas in your example being your in Australia? I also was wanting to know if you think always use geo tags or only if the blog is about a certain area.

Thanks,
Zero

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:53:42 +0000

I haven’t delved into geotagging yet, but one thought occurs to me. Perhaps the women reading can understand the reluctance of identifying your geographical location to cyberworld. Applications of geotagging when I’m writing about a different place would be nice, but I have to admit not wanting to jump in.

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:51:32 +0000

Why in the world would anyone use these tags? What search engine looks for them?

By: Rob O.

Rob O. — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:55:20 +0000

Mark, it’s the inverse – this isn’t for YOU to see where your site’s visitors are coming from but rather for YOUR VISITORS to have an additional way to find you – to see where your blog or site is geographically located.

By: Nantucket Art

Nantucket Art — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:40:06 +0000

Thanks – I’ve added the meta tags and am up and running.

By: Felex Tan

Felex Tan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:01:25 +0000

Feedmap is not working ,others are ok.It is simple to use especially MyGeoPosition ,the tools are useful.

By: sami

sami — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:46:21 +0000

hmm gotto check that on my own website!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:31:28 +0000

If I want to know where my readers are from I just look at my Google Analytics reports (which turned out to be an interesting read: fully 40% of my readers are outside the US, which suprised me).

By: rjleaman

rjleaman — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:41:27 +0000

I’m with Whatleydude on this one, in that geotagging on individual posts strikes me as more useful than tagging a whole site or blog. In fact, I’ve got a new personal project in the works for which post-geotagging could be a great navigation option, more suited to the particular subject matter than trying to chunk up content into the usual Categories, or leaving readers to wade through an irrelevant chronology of archives. Ideally, there’d be a Google-type map, where clicking on a place-marker would take the reader to a page (or pages) of posts related to that location… is it do-able, practical, cost-effective? I don’t know yet, but investigating the possibility is high on the to-do list.

By: Bobby Gabriel

Bobby Gabriel — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:39:10 +0000

how will this effect the number of visitors to your site? will this increase visitor count?