Should You Geotag Pages For Local SEO?

[Buzzwords]

If so can where do I insert the geo tag? I want to do this for a landing page in a different city, and i've simply put the Geo tag in this landing page. Is this right? Help, NEWBIE!!!

[WebBizIdeas]

Google has recently stated that they no longer support the geo tag, what you need to do is create a locations.kml file with all of your locations in it, then create a sitemap.xml file that references the locations.kml file, then upload them both to the root of your site via FTP and then tell google Webmasters about the new sitemap.xml

One thing that makes it easy is http://www.geositemapgenerator.com/ after you run through it and download the geositemap.xml file, go in and edit the code to remove the geo tag parts.

BTW, currently Google is the only one that supports this at the moment, Bing/Yahoo dont recognize them, but Bing has stated that they are working on it.

[MiriamEllis]

Spot on response from WebBizIdeas! Buzzwords - here's a good little article about this from Mike Blumenthal from when this change happened:

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/03/28/google-still-supporting-kml-files-but-not-the-use-of-geo-sitemaps/

Everybody's a newbie at some point. You're doing the right thing taking steps to learn! Good luck!