Comments on: Does Geotagging Photos Help Google Maps & Earth Searches?

By: Mike King

Mike King — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:35:10 +0000

Excellent article, I shall try this out.

I think Geo-tagging will be a built-in feature on many future devices and apps so best get to grips with it all.

By: Zach

Zach — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:15:01 +0000

I agree that you probably have given business to restaurants, etc based on location-based data (Google Earth). I questioned whether photography business can earn new business based on this data for mainstream photography niches like wedding and portrait photographers. The regional landscape photography you do may be a different story. However, the traffic you currently see is almost certainly from keywords that use the location name and not from the location tags themselves. Great comment though and very valid argument!

By: Forrest

Forrest — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:06:30 +0000

You said

From a search perspective, will these listings bring any more traffic through my website, or revenue through my business? Probably not for the large majority of photographers right now at the beginning of 2010. I do not expect the latitude and longitude tags would help your images or website rank higher in a traditional Google search.

What exactly is a traditional Google search? When I resort to checking my server logs, I see that a lot of the people who find my site do so by searching for the particular locations my photos came from. These are usually done by name ( Rainier, Seattle, etc ), for fairly obvious reasons.

I can say that I’ve been to a lot of local businesses ( restaurants, hotels, etc ) that I never would have known about had it not been for nature photographs posted on Google Earth not too far from those places. For example, here’s a wonderful mountain vista and a great place for a day hike, so I’ll go there, and will likely stop for a well earned dinner on the way home.