Comments on: Local SEO Tip: Google Maps loves Panoramio’s Geotagged Images

By: Gavin Heppinstall

Gavin Heppinstall — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:05:39 +0000

@Mike
Thanks very much. My main aim is to upload the pics from Picasa to my places page so as long as panoramio and picasa have the same SEO benefits, i think picasa may be better for me as this will avoid duplication of pics too.

Thanks for the advice

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:25:53 +0000

@Gavin
I have not looked lately but last time I did, the Panoramio images were more likely to show up on the Places page.

By: Gavin Heppinstall

Gavin Heppinstall — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:14:36 +0000

Apologies for the late post on this one…..think im a bit of a late starter.

I have been using Picasa to optimize and upload to my places listing and have recently been looking at Panoramio.

I know that GeoTagging can be achieved with both so my question really is, does optimizing photos and images with Panoramio have any advantages over Picasa or are they very similar in terms of optimization?

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Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:26:43 +0000

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By: Kathy Long

Kathy Long — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:24:14 +0000

Andrea, that link is broken. Here is the new one: http://labs.sumaato.net/tools/flickr_geocode_bookmarklet/

Mike, have you got some tips on how to get Google to associate a Panoramio image with a listing? Is it done simply by “mapping” it? Can you also include NAP?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:00:49 +0000

@Andrea
It makes sense to use photos as citations and it makes sense to upload photos to Flickr and Panoramio that are geocoded and associated with a listing. I can not see any benefit in linking to those from the listing. If they are properly crafted they will associate with the listing on their own. Google has a limit to the number of photos so I suggest using Google and another service. The only problem with using the same photos is that they very likely will end up on the Places Page twice.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:48:05 +0000

I’ve seen people recommend not uploading images directly to Google Place pages but rather linking to geotagged photos that have been placed on Flickr or Panoramio. Anyone have an opinion about uploading versus linking. These folks are advising build the photo sharing citations first so that you can link to the photos when you enhance the Place Page.

Also, any problem with placing the exact same photos on Flickr & Panoramio?

In the spirit of sharing…here is a tool I came across today that seems to work beautifully for adding geocode information to Flickr images. (Not my website) http://labs.sumaato.net/tools/flickr_geocode_bookmarklet/"Flickr Geocode Bookmarklet

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