Comments on: The time for a “Geo” Sitemap is Now http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-time-for-your-geo-sitemap-in-now/ Developing Knowledge about Local Search Sat, 18 May 2013 10:27:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: New Web based KML & Geo Sitemap Tool Released | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-time-for-your-geo-sitemap-in-now/comment-page-1/#comment-446774 New Web based KML & Geo Sitemap Tool Released | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:16:22 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=680#comment-446774 [...] the first quarter of 2008 they added support for KML sitemaps to webmaster central to actively alert Google of your geo info and any changes that might occur in your location [...]

]]> By: Google Maps: Will More Fully Integrated User Created Content Generate Mapspam? » Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-time-for-your-geo-sitemap-in-now/comment-page-1/#comment-343677 Google Maps: Will More Fully Integrated User Created Content Generate Mapspam? » Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:57:00 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=680#comment-343677 [...] was indexing KML & RSS files and integrating that information into Maps and why that made having your own kml information and geo sitemap [...]

]]> By: Et pendant ce temps là…. http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-time-for-your-geo-sitemap-in-now/comment-page-1/#comment-282319 Et pendant ce temps là…. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:28:18 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=680#comment-282319 [...] Comment lutter contre le “Mapspam” via Greg Sterling et Blumenthals [...]

]]> By: Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Google Maps: KML for authority and ranking? | Developing Knowledge about Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-time-for-your-geo-sitemap-in-now/comment-page-1/#comment-260874 Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local Search » Google Maps: KML for authority and ranking? | Developing Knowledge about Local Search Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:02:58 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=680#comment-260874 [...] VP of Maps, has indicated that businesses should start using KML files in his interviews with Greg Sterling & Eric Enge. Eric Enge: I first heard about KML a while back and I have seen some stuff [...]

]]> By: martijn http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-time-for-your-geo-sitemap-in-now/comment-page-1/#comment-249058 martijn Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:33:26 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=680#comment-249058 @stever did you add it as a second sitemap?

One year ago, Google advised me at the Google Geo developer day to include a .kml in the ‘normal’ sitemap.

http://www.example.com/mylocations.kml
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now with geositemaps they want us to submit a second sitemap, probably to keep the information in sitemaps clean and tidy. regular sitemap should be about the regular sitemap, the mobile sitemap about the mobile structure, the geositemap about physical locations. etc.
If google webmaster tools is telling you that there are errors in your second sitemap (the geo one) maybe you will just have to wait before they update their system. To be sure, it’s better to use the http://google.com/webmasters/tools/ and not of a country specific .TLD because google tends to implement features in different countries at a different time :/

I have always been using the ‘old’ method, but just uploaded on of the new geositemaps. Will report on status later.

]]> By: Stever http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-time-for-your-geo-sitemap-in-now/comment-page-1/#comment-247202 Stever Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:49:07 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=680#comment-247202 Looks like that page conflicts with the other Google Page about geo sitemaps. I’ll just drop those geo:geo tags and just get the url indexed then.

]]> By: Mike Blumenthal http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-time-for-your-geo-sitemap-in-now/comment-page-1/#comment-247123 Mike Blumenthal Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:00:50 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=680#comment-247123 Stever-

I have yet to implement but did you see this page: Drive More Search Traffic to Your Maps API Site by Including KML Files in a Sitemap?

]]> By: Stever http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-time-for-your-geo-sitemap-in-now/comment-page-1/#comment-247033 Stever Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:39:20 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=680#comment-247033 after adding these to sitemaps i now see site map error reports in Google Webmaster Tools.

-Invalid XML tag
-This tag was not recognized. Please fix it and resubmit.
-Tag:geo

Perhaps the Webmaster Tools system has just not caught up yet to know that they now do recognize this tag??

I do of course have the geo schema call at the top of the sitemap file that is supposed to define the tags.

Anyone else seeing this?

]]> By: Google on Local Search: “Always changing how we determine relevancy” | CityMarketer.com http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-time-for-your-geo-sitemap-in-now/comment-page-1/#comment-246887 Google on Local Search: “Always changing how we determine relevancy” | CityMarketer.com Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:48:50 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=680#comment-246887 [...] tip to Mike Blumenthal on covering the interview, particularly in regards to KML [...]

]]> By: Add Geo-Data to Your Local Website | Stever.ca http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/05/29/the-time-for-your-geo-sitemap-in-now/comment-page-1/#comment-245113 Add Geo-Data to Your Local Website | Stever.ca Sat, 31 May 2008 10:37:25 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=680#comment-245113 [...] Blumenthal just wrote a great post about adding a Geo site map to websites. So i got to tinkering with some of this KML format geo data files and discovered a few new things [...]

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