Use Locations as Keywords or no?

[andycollings]

Though it would be redundant to add my locations, such as "Chicago Planetarium" to my keywords as well as my Location/Places field, is it advisable nonetheless to do that? Same with "Intellectual Genre". If so, why?
Andy

[peterkrogh]

Andy,
The best reason I can think of is to make the data discoverable in a stock search through an engine that does not search the IPTC location fields.

I will sometimes do this if the picture is *about* the place, not merely *taken* in the place.
Peter

[andycollings]

Thanks Peter! I really appreciate all your timely information. As always, your advice is very sound. So, it sounds like unless the image is about that place (such as an exterior shot or interior empty room shot), you don't tag the location in the image's keywords.
Your response reminds me of another question: can I tag images on my website automatically with metadata (such as keywords and location, genre etc) and have that be meaningful in google?

[peterkrogh]

Ralph,
I don't think Google reads embedded keywords.  Best to extract them and make then regular HTML text on the page. 

If I had a picture of the US Capitol, I would want Washington DC as a keyword, but a generic picture of, say, a tree that just happened to be in Washington probably does not need it.

Peter