Barry Hunter of Nearby.org.uk, one of the most knowledgeable people about Google Maps and Google Earth, has created a flow chart showing the path that geo referenced information takes from the KML file on your website into Google’s geo properties.
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August 18, 2008
The flow of KML information through Google
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thank you for this nice post!
Comment by Jean-Noël (2 comments) — August 18, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
Barry is the star on this one! In the original post he has answered a few of my questions about the chart.
Mike
Comment by Mike Blumenthal (737 comments) — August 18, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
Thank you very much. Certainly a lot to study. I am just amazed how some one can figure all this out and not be on the inside of Google. Certainly shows many places to take action on for local search to make sure the information feed is picked up.
Comment by David Cox (4 comments) — August 19, 2008 @ 6:05 am
I could not tell from the graph, but does it appear if Google Maps considers the authority or page rank of the referring site in determining the Local result rankings?
Comment by panzermike (130 comments) — August 21, 2008 @ 9:04 am
The chart does not address the ranking of local listings, only the flow of geo data from one area of Google to the next.
Authority in the geo referenced world of Google Maps is of necessity measured somewhat differently than in the web world. Pagerank seems to only marginally correlate, if at all, to Maps ranking.
Mike
Comment by Mike Blumenthal (737 comments) — August 21, 2008 @ 9:15 am
[...] If you want to understand the flow of KML information through Google’s index this flow chart provides an overview the routes it takes into and through the various Google [...]
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