January 11, 2007
More traffic to your local/mashup site using Google
The official Google Maps API blog lets us know that you can Drive More Traffic to Your Maps API Site - Include KML Files in Your Sitemap.
If you have a site with maps on them, include a KML file somewhere on your site and use Google Sitemaps to expose them to googlebot (so it knows where to find them).
Including KML files in a
sitemap.xmlfile (see http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html ) is a great way for you to help us index and drive traffic to your site. After publishing your data in KML, we’ll crawl the KML files that you specify in yoursitemap.xmlfile. We’ll send users your way when they search for content that is found on your mashup site. As an added bonus, once your data is in KML, it will be available for viewing on Google Earth.
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Bio Sting said,
January 11, 2007 @ 12:58 pm
I hope that I understand everything right ? Does it mean that I have to put a KML-File in every HTML-page ?
Anyway: good informationa are to find here - great!
emad said,
January 11, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
no…a kml file is just an XML file. Google gives an example of a kmz file (here’s a copy…but that is just a zipped up XML file. Here is what I got when I did an unzip on the kmz file: doc.kml.
In that example, there is a name and a description for each entry (and the description contains a URL). There are other variations of you read the kml docs.
Google is just using this as a way to discover your location-specific records and add them to their index. So, you can stick *all* of your location-specific records (i.e. business locations, geo-tagged photos, or whatever) in one kml file for them to find.