- business hours
- geolocation (latitude & longitude)
- NAICS code (the successor to SIC code)
- physical & mailing addresses
Wouldn’t it be cool if business websites were all tagged with meta data like:
Nice idea, but I’m afraid it would become just one more thing for the search engine spammers to abuse, and thus be useless.
You should check out microformats.org there are a large numer of emerging standards for ‘tagging’ there. There are a large number of tagging freaks on Flickr as well. As far as spamming goes I don’t see much point, you can only have one location in the real world after all. I think that Nadir’s comments about local search is spot on.