Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
What can we as webmasters do to help improve the quality of the search results. Yes: there is a search box in the upper left corner, but hardly any of the posters has accounted for that.
How does is work for the classical local-based-services: traffic, dining, real-estate et.c.? I assume the results are quite fine for the US? What about Europe, Asia? What can I do to help earth.google to show my site among the most important ten marks for my major search terms, just like google itself normally puts my site on page one? I'm thinking of a sort of meta tag with the coordinates of my company on my "about us"-page or something similar.
Finally: Yes I agree: Its a great tool, maybe able to revolutionize the internet in a way similar to what the netscape navigator once did.
Are there any means to make google earth start automatically provided the visitor has installed it?
Are there any means to make google earth start automatically provided the visitor has installed it?
I absolutly hope not!
It is bad enough when you click a link and the browser tries to power up MS Word etc as it is without that being added to the pot.
However, if i write a short html-page and add a href-link to such a kmz-file, winzip starts when clicking on that link. winzip then extracts a kml-file, but if i add a href-link to that kml-file my browser only shows the kml-source code.
I guess this has to do with the add-ons my browser contains and allows. Maybe I'll manage to configure my browser in such a way that it opens google earth automatically, but before this isn't automatically performed during the google-earth-installation-process, it wouldn't make sense to add such placemarks to my website, because i cannot expect the ordinary surfer to manipulate her browser before visiting my site.
another explanation would be that additional xml-code was necessary to embed the kml-code into a website, but i don't know anything about xml. Does googlebot already scan and index such kml-code?
Maybe i just didn't do enough research on the keyhole syntax. If this is the case please take my apology for wasting webmasterworld webspace and point me to a good tutorial for absolute dummies like me.
Well it works perfectly fine for pdf-files so why not for earth.google
I am not a huge fan of it doing that with PDF files either to be honest - I usully right click to save then open them.
I find that accidentally clicking on a pdf file and having it open within the browser to be hugely annoying as it is an unexpected event powering up a software app on my pc.
Especially as acrobat rarely closes properly on PC's when you have finished with it.
to my httpd.conf file under apache on my localhost.
Now google earth opens automatically if i click on a link to a .kmz-file. However I am not sure whether this is correct.
I mailed to my hoster and asked to do a similar job, so that I can add kmz-files to my website. I hope to get a positive reply in the near future.
Let me finally add that I am quite surprised noone in here has yet commented on the possibilities these kml and kmz files bear for SERP-rankings. It is very valuable information for the visitors of websites with location-based-services. I suppose that in the very near future google is going to scan the internet for such information and add it to its own servers so that the information given is delivered with the mere download of the google earth tool (Noone has yet raised the question where all these links and information on dining and lodging came from). We then will have the chance to add information and backlinks to our websites from within that framework. It might also be the case that such storage on the google servers is reserved to paid adds. we will see...
