Good point about ranking and publishing from your own domain. You also want to make sure that the kml file is featured in your sitemap xml...
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlSearch.html
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James Morley [log in to unmask]
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew www.kew.org
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Jim O'Donnell
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:30 AM
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> Subject: Re: Further to Problem with Google Earth
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> >
> >One quick way of publishing the location of your museum is
> to include
> ><meta name="geo.position" content="50.167958;-97.133185"> in
> your web
> >pages.
> >
> >Frankie
> >
> At the NMM, we've used Google Maps - My Maps to generate a
> map with our address and location. We publish a KML file on
> our site which links to that Google Map.
> http://www.nmm.ac.uk/img/nmm/kml/nmmrog.kml
>
> http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=
http:%2F%2Fwww.nmm.ac.uk%2Fimg%2Fnmm%2Fkml%2Fnmmrog.kml&ie=UTF8> &z=17
>
> I'd recommend doing this yourself if you want to publish your
> address officially (ie. from your institution) to Google
> Maps. You might find that a KML file published from your own
> domain gets a better search ranking than other location info
> in Google's index.
>
> Jim
>
> Jim O'Donnell
> Senior Web Developer
> National Maritime Museum
> Park Row
> Greenwich
> London SE10 9NF
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