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Mobile SEO a must in 2011

By now people would have heard the term " Mobile SEO " but some still thinks of doing SEO to non-mobile friendly sites should take care the conversion part of consumers using mobile devices. Certainly not, I suggest starting a separate mobile site with mobile formatted digital content if you don’t have one. According to comScore , Mobile search was 9 percent of all queries in 2010 and could grow to 20 percent by 2012. So do you want to be one of the person missing in those 20 percent Mobile search audience? Mobile search engines bots and algorithms are different from web search engines. Googlebot-Mobile and other mobile search engine bots evaluates your mobile site as if they render on mobile phone and they rank results based on how well the site provides information based on mobile user query. The results can be even based on user agent’s evaluation on different handsets like iphone, Erickson phone, LG phone, Blackberry or Samsung phone. To overcome this you need to ha...

How to do Mobile SEO? - Tips and Best Practices

Mobile SEO is different from desktop SEO and Mobile phones and not used like desktops. Content, navigation's and user experience are different from desktops to mobiles. Here is a list of tips and best practice that can help you when you start with a mobile SEO, (1) To start with you need to think that you are going to target mobile users and not desktop users. Plan for it. (2) As told mobile users are different and as well mobile search engines are different like Google Mobile, Medio and Jumptap. (3) Get a dotMobi domain and build your mobile web site, for the best and effective SEO. This has more value than 'yourdomain.com/mobile' or 'm.yourdomain.com' (4) Ensure that you don't use flash, Ajax, frames and other presentations. Make it simple and clean. This will help to load faster that serves users and as well for the bots to find it easy. (5) Use compliant markup language and mobile-friendly style sheets (CSS). This means WML (or WAP 1.0) / xHTML. Ma...