{"id":11321,"date":"2011-10-07T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=11321"},"modified":"2011-10-06T23:02:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T03:02:42","slug":"a-free-tool-to-build-geo-sitemap-and-schema-org-compliant-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/a-free-tool-to-build-geo-sitemap-and-schema-org-compliant-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Local SEO: A Free Tool to Build GEO Sitemap and Schema.org Compliant Files"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two simple ways of telling Google and the other search engines where your business is located via your website. One is to create a KML file and an attendant geo-sitemap. The other is to provide your full business contact information in rich snippet format on the site. Now there is a way to easily do both with one simple creation tool<\/a> from Michael Borgelt of 51Blocks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From a single input of your basic NAP + web information, the tool creates a kml file, a geo-sitemap file pointing Google to the KML file and an HTML code snippet in the new schema.org format<\/a> for your business contact info.<\/p>\n

You then paste the code snippet onto your contact us page or into the footer of your website, place the kml & geo-sitemap files in your public html file of your site and then reference the geo-sitemap file from the Google webmaster tools. The KML file can also be uploaded to Google MyMaps to create an embeddable direction and location map for your website. <\/p>\n

I doubt that Google needs both signals to trust your site but by doing both you have future proofed your site for any eventuality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are two simple ways of telling Google and the other search engines where your business is located via your website. One is to create a KML file and an attendant geo-sitemap. The other is to provide your full business contact information in rich snippet format on the site. Now there is a way to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t