What is the benefit of geotagging?
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Hello. Why should I geotag my posts? I don’t see a purpose or benefit.
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I’m not trying to gain readers or customers from any specific area so where I am situate and how far it is for potential reader or customers to get to me is not relevant. https://en.support.wordpress.com/geotagging/
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Most of my posts are about something that happened in mine or other cities. Geotagging does not help people identify easier about where my post is talking about? Like, seeing this directly from Google search result? Or maybe even Google search results doesn’t showing, but taking it into acount when sorting the most relevant results for the reader?
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In that case then geotagging may indeed be relevant. For discussion see here https://www.google.ca/search?q=google+webmaster+geotagging&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=x1GoVrnIF4fhjAO726iYAw
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I found that:
Google, however, has historically chosen to ignore geotags from third-party content. Even if you have created your blog on Google’s own Blogger and geotagged it there, Google still ignores your geotag when delivering search results. Even Google’s otherwise excellent blog on geo-things ëLat Long’ doesn’t seem to geotag its posts.
— The Guardian, 2012 -
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Basing in this information, I choose not to use this feature. If Google doesn’t consider, I can’t see any other purpose. But, I will wait for more people to comment, and maybe tag for modlook, just to be sure that there is not something we are not considering.
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@kixty9 it’s a matter of preference. Some folks (travel bloggers for example) enjoy keeping track of their locations, and some don’t. I could conceivably see a theme that employed the geotags to make a map of posts, but I don’t think we have one right now, and even if we did, that may not be your cup of tea anyway.
If geotagging is useful to you, use it. If not, don’t worry about it. I personally don’t use it.
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If you love travel so much the adding geotagg will also help you and the reader to identify easily where photo is taken.
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My blog isn’t about photos, is about texts reporting events.
The geotag is located at the bottom of the post, so it doesn’t help to easily identify where is the text about, because the visitor needs to read all the text to discover (to get to the bottom), and so he discover along the text anyway (like in the introduction paragraph).
Also, I already use normal tags with the name of the cities. So, how geotags are better than normal tags? Appears that they are not even real tags, anyway. As, I can’t sort all my posts by location, like adding the cities to a menu or simply clicking in the name of one of them in the bottom of the post. Or can I?
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@kixty9 from the support document:
The location is added to your post or page in various machine-readable formats: geo microformat, geo.position and ICBM meta tags, and GeoRSS and W3C geodata in feeds.
I would imagine tags don’t do that.
If locations are relevant in your posts, go ahead and use geotagging if you’d like. If not, don’t worry about it.
Here’s the support document for more information:
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I accidentally clicked “Add Location” tonight on a post I was editing and now the “Add Location” button is gone while using Firefox.
I tried using Chrome, and the button is still there.
I don’t want to use it, but why is the button missing?
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Another question, are all my posts now geotagged because I clicked the button earlier tonight?
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@dandelionsalad, geolocation must be added per post. It does not automatically appear in every post. If you’re taking photos on a device that supports geolocation, though, chances are the location appears there every time automatically.
Re: the button being missing in Firefox, can you start a new thread since it’s not really related to this one?
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Thanks, Supernovia for getting back so quickly, especially so late in the evening. Will start a new thread about the missing button.
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Supernovia, locations are relevant, but i felt the need to create this thread because I don’t know how geotagging serves this relevance. Like you said, this feature adds many machine-readable informations… But which machines reads this? Google doesn’t.
Also, I asked before: it’s possible or not to sort the posts by location, like if I would use a normal tag?
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