Before I talk about geo-tagging your store's website I feel compelled to warn people with Smartphones, iPhones, etc. to turn off geo-tagging from your mobile phone. Geo-tagging from your mobile phone is caused when you send out an image, video, etc to many different web applications, such as Facebook, Flickr, Google Buzz, etc. Smartphones are equiped with GPS locator technology. The Smartphone's cameras contain specialized hardware to automatically insert geo-location information to photos and videos at the time they are taken. These images if posted on the Internet can then be read by stalkers and others that know how to find the information. Sometimes the geo-location is published visibly along with the photo by the web application. Bottom line, it is best to
TURN OFF GEO-TAGGING ON YOUR SMARTPHONES. Here is a good article that will tell you how to disable geo tagging on various SmartPhone devices...
http://www.icanstalku.com/how.php#disable
Geo Tagging Websites
Geo-tagging a local store's location on your website is a good thing and causes no harm to you. All we are doing is adding some hidden metadata that tells search engines bots and spiders your store location. Although this may not be that big of a deal today, as more and more people turn to mobile devices geo tagging metadata may help your visibility and geographic search capability for mapping on mobile devices. Plus, it has no negative effects to your website or search engine rankings.
It basically looks like this in the HTML source code for your web page...
You see learn more by going to the
GeoTag Elements website.
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