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During my blogwalking, I found this blog wrote about geo tag. I have no idea about this thing called geo tag, then I start to read more his post. Hmm, I’ve found this kind of interesting. He has analyzed and come to conclusion that Google will get to close to those blogs/site that introduce itself to Google. There were two kind of tag that Google use to recognize your blog/s. First, you maybe already knew this one, meta tag. Second one, and Google will give more attention to this one start from this year ahead.

Geo tag consist of informations about your site’s location, Google will use this informations to set how your site will appear on search result of location you’ve specified. There were two ways you can insert this information, first you could insert some short script to your blog consisting infos about your target location’s coordinate, area name, and country code. Here’s one example :

<META NAME=”geo.position” CONTENT=”latitude; longitude”>
<META NAME=”geo.country” CONTENT=”country ID”>
<META NAME=”geo.placename” CONTENT=”area name”>

You see there are three parts of geo tag, the first part shows your blog’s geographic location based on its latitude and longitude. Second one, shows your blog’s country ID, specify where your target location is with this tool. Then, finally on the third part you should fill it with  its area or place’s name. To make it easier for you, here’s an example if your blog’s location is in London.

<META NAME=”geo.position” CONTENT=”51.5000; -0.1667”>
<META NAME=”geo.country” CONTENT=”GB”>
<META NAME=”geo.placename” CONTENT=”London”>

Now, you’re ready to place this script to your sites. Looks little bit difficult for you? You could use the second one, it’s very easy cause Google actually already give you a tool that you can use to specify your blog’s location or target area. Log in to Google Webmaster, then you’re ready to go with these simple steps : sign in with your Google’s account, go to tools, choose geographic target and follow instructions there.