What is the geo tag in SEO ?

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Tagging your website with geographical location to improve your local seo is known as geo tagging for your website. They help to improve search engine ranking in local search results.

If you have a website for your local business, wouldn’t it be great if potential customers can easily find your location? This can be made possible with Geo Tagging. Geo tagging is a technique that allows you to tag your website, content, RSS feeds, and other things at certain location

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If you have a website for your local business, wouldn’t it be great if potential customers can easily find your location? This can be made possible with Geo Tagging. Geo tagging is a technique that allows you to tag your website, content, RSS feeds, and other things at certain location

how to get most out of geo tagging, what is the best strategy to work on this technique?

GoogleAdWords allows you to target only those countries and cities that are important for your business. Advertising is seen by users who are either in one of the specified locations, or are interested in it.
Using advanced location targeting settings you can schedule your ads with one of these criteria. The default is to use both.

A geo tag is the process of associating a geographical location with web page content. The webmaster can insert precise geographic coordinates in the code contained in a Meta tag which will tell search engines of an exact location.

Geo tag is the process of associating a geographical location with web page content. It is used to add the geographical meta data within pages, images and other media, and semantic markup informs devices and search engine bots of the longitude and latitude information.

Google Webmaster helps its users to set their geo location to improve their local SEO. If you set your geo tag it will give your website an advantage in your selected country searches.

As my point of view geo tag is not beneficial for SEO. Basically GEO Tag are location specific meta for web page or website.

A geo tag is the process of associating a geographical location with web page content. The webmaster can insert precise geographic coordinates in the code contained in a Meta tag which will tell search engines of an exact location.

Geo tags are useful for those searching for a particular business such as a painting contractor. It is important to find one in a specified locality so that they can perform their services. Geo tags are added into the code to the header of the site or blog.

Geotagging or Geo Tag allows webmasters or seo people to embed geographic coordinates within pages, images and other media and semantic markup.

Geo tag is the process of associating a geographical location with web page content.It is a way to add geographical meta data to photos, RSS feeds, and websites.A geotag can define the longitude and latitude of the tagged item. Or it can define the location place name or regional identifier. It can also include information such as the altitude and bearing.

If you include your local business address longitude and latitude in website header meta tags then it is called geo tag of your website which is a part of on page optimization.

Generally Google takes your websites adress or zip code to figure out location for ranking factor.

Linking Geographical attributes to your site, which helps search engines find exact location.

A geotag is geographical information metadata embedded into an object.The webmaster can insert precise geographic coordinates in the code contained in a Meta tag which will tell search engines of an exact location

Geo tag - tag that specify your location by server IP location.

A geo tag is geographical information that is embedded into an object, whether a photo, a website, or an RSS feed. The process of geotagging, also known as geocoding, is a method of adding these geographical metadata, to a object in order for search engine and readers of the page to know its geographical location. These tags are commonly used to indicate the location of a photo or whether the subject matter of the page is. For example, if you are writing about a festival in Honolulu, then you can add a geotag called "Hawaii."

Geo tag is considered for selecting a particular location and targeting customers from that location. Your website becomes visible in that location with help of search engines.

Geo Tagging is best suited for businesses that want to target local market with Geotargetted keywords which are key to rank locally.If we have physical office located in a city,with Geotagging and Geotargetted keywords, we not only get local traffic not just to your site, but enquirers that reach to your office.