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Adding position META tags to your website

You can include META tags in the HTML code of a webpage, which describe a latitude and longitude position the content is associated with. A2B accepts two kinds of META tags, GeoURL-style ICBM tags and Geotags, and will scan automatically for these when you adding a site to A2B.

GeoURL-style ICBM META tags
ICBM META tags are so named because InterContinental Ballistic Missiles were loaded with a target latitude and longitude before launch, and would speed through sub-orbital space before annihilating their destination. An ICBM META tag is included in a web page's <HEAD>  information, and describes the latitude and longitude associated with the webpage's content.

An ICBM META tag looks like this:

<meta name="ICBM" content="44.345,-93.712">

The first part of the content is the decimal latitude (negative values for positions South of the Equator), and the second part, after the comma, is decimal longitude (negative for positions West of the Greenwich Meridian).

Geotag META tags
Like an ICBM META tag, a Geotag is included in a web page's <HEAD> information, and describes the latitude and longitude associated with the webpage.

A Geotag META tag looks like this:

<meta name="geo.position" content="44.345;-93.712">

As above, the first and second parts of the content describe the webpage content's latitude and longitude respectively.

To A2B-enable your website, just include one of these META tags in the <HEAD> part of your HTML document.

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