Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 11:08 AM
Webmaster Level: AllCross-posted from the Lat Long Blog.
We’re sharing some news today that we hope webmasters will find exciting. As you know, we’re constantly working to organize the world’s information - be it textual, visual, geographic or any other type of useful data. From a local search perspective, part of this effort means looking for all the great web pages that reference a particular place. The Internet is teeming with useful information about local places and points of interest, and we do our best to deliver relevant search results that help shed light on locations all across the globe.
Today, we’re announcing that your use of Rich Snippets can help people find the web pages you’ve created that may reference a specific place or location. By using structured HTML formats like hCard to markup the business or organization described on your page, you make it easier for search engines like Google to properly classify your site, recognize and understand that its content is about a particular place, and make it discoverable to users on Place pages.
You can get started by reviewing these tips for using Rich Snippets for Local Search. Whether you’re creating a website for your own business, an article on a newly opened restaurant, or a guide to the best places in town, your precise markup helps associate your site with the search results for that particular place. Though this markup does not guarantee that your site will be shown in search results, we’re excited to expand support for making the web better organized around real world places.
13 comments:
This is great. One of the places I work with only services a local geographic area, and they could really use this kind of place specific information to help google understand where they are (and where they are not - they may get too much traffic from people 30km away, which in this case is indeed too far).
Amazing how precise you need to be to be relevant.
This is great.
Wow.. this is really exciting.. I was looking out for something similar to this as well. Thanks Google! Cheers!
Very expected improvement :)
Thanks.
This technology DONES NOT address the problem of business owners who are located in a tiered office building or strip mall that has one physical address BUT also having multiple business occupants under different suite numbers.
Hola no se si este es el medio para solicitarle. pero tengo un blogs es portalodontologico.blogspot.com, es de odontología artículos que escribimos con otros colegas (algunos), pero resulta que aparece ahora un cartel de Advertencia, dice: "Advertencia de contenido Algunos lectores de este blog se han puesto en contacto con Google porque consideran que el contenido del mismo es dudoso. Generalmente Google no revisa ni aprueba el contenido de este, ni de ningún otro blog. Para obtener más información relativa a las políticas de contenido, visita las Condiciones del servicio de Blogger."
Esto le quita seriedad al blog, y me gustaría saber si hay forma de que NO vuelva a salir esta advertencia cada vez que ingrese al blog. Muchas gracias. Susana
I am new to publishing a blog. It does give me the opportunity to discuss my views as I see it. I often wonder what others are thinking about the various problems that we face in todays world. It is only sharing of information and views that peace can be achierved.
That sounds very helpfull the hcard things a moving quickly on the web and anything that helps with listing understanding your content is great.
You mean so you can scrape IYP/Directory data more accurately, claim it as your own and then position that aggregated content below the fold on a places page?
That’s really wonderful. May other local directories
like Yelp and other geo-location search come up with the similar features in near future.
Hi
I don't know, whats the matter but google webmaster tool are not working...the message appear "It is n't redirecting properly".
Please tell me whats the matter...?
this is great news i have recently start to include this information on sites i work with as i thought it would help with local search.
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