Geo-meta-tags

[nancyisabell]

How to include GEO-META-TAGS and which context for localized searches?

 

[pari91]

Geo meta tags are used when you are targeting specific region for Search engine optimization. Geo meta tags shows specific location for targeting.

 

[cutegirl]

These tags are include keyword of your location in its meta tags.

 

[Elly]

You use them to tag your site and then google, bing, yahoo etc. know where your site is physically based. It's great for a local business, as you can specify your location to search engines who will then return your pages in local search results. e.g. car insurance in macclesfield will bring up the local Swinton's branch in Macclesfield.

 

[niharikadutt]

These tags look like this and serve the purpose of telling search engines where the site is based:

<meta name="geo.placename" content="United States" />
<meta name="geo.position" content="x;x" />
<meta name="geo.region" content="usa" />
<meta name="ICBM" content="x,x" />

 

[Neha Kumari]

No idea about this.

 

[edwina]

Thank you sharing this useful and giving brief information.

 

[Broadanderson]

One of the best tool for generating meta geo-tag: www.geo-tag.de

 

[immehndi]

Geo Meta tags is the tool which will target audience from specific region or specific country.

 

[jaysh4922]

A geo tag is the method of associate a geographical location with web page content. The webmaster can insert exact geographic coordinates in the code controlled in a Meta tag which will tell search engines of an exact location.

 

[jdhotham]

Thanks for this discussion, but because I'm interested in the same topic right now I've had to do some research.

The official Google page (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/182192?hl=en) clearly states they do not support these tags. See section "Targeting Site Content to a Specific Country"

Google does not use locational meta tags (like geo.position or distribution) or HTML attributes for geotargeting.

Many comments on the subject conclude that Google prefers content and links to give the right signals for the location of a page.

 

[worldeyeglass]

These tags look like this and serve the purpose of telling search engines where the site is based:

<meta name="geo.placename" content="United States" />
<meta name="geo.position" content="x;x" />
<meta name="geo.region" content="usa" />
<meta name="ICBM" content="x,x" />

According to John Mu from Google (verbatem)

We generally ignore geo-meta tags like that because we've found that they're generally incorrect (copy & pasted from a template, etc).

 

[guptaabhijit318]

A Geo tag is the method of associate a geographical location with web page content. The webmaster can insert exact geographic coordinates in the code controlled in a Meta tag which will tell search engines of an exact location.

 

[Jessicad0505]

I think Geo-meta-tags are used to find the geolocation of the user.

 

[jeevanrahi0]

Not sure, but have a rough idea
<meta name="geo.placename" content="india" />