If your business either has a traditional brick and mortar store front, or your site can value by being associated with your location, then you can benefit from Geo Tags. If your location is irrelevant to your online success, then Geo Tags will be of little use to you.
Geo Tags are trivially easy to implement and they can help to improve your ranking results for searches specific to your area. This ultimately results in higher search rankings and increased targeted traffic to your site. Does Google Use Them? Currently Google most likely ignores Geo Tags. I say "most likely” because JohnMu, a Google employee, recently stated in a forum thread: “We generally ignore geo-meta tags like that because we’ve found that they’re generally incorrect."
He says "we generally ignore" them. This does imply that in some cases they don’t ignore them, and that there is no definite answer of “no”. With this in mind, that leaves room for the possibility that Google does pay attention to these tags. Because these tags can cause no harm (if used correctly), and because in most cases they are trivial to implement, it just makes sense to include them.
Geo Tags What Are They and Why You Need Them
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