Importance of Mobile Search Engine Optimization:
The markets for smart phones are expanding. Cheap mobile phones are easily available and people’s interest to access the internet via their mobile phones is increasing. From web browsing to email to social networking and even shopping, more people are using their cell phones as portable computers. So now there is a large scope for business owners to develop the websites and apps for mobile users. Most of the companies have started developing their websites for mobile devices.
If you are planning to develop your website for mobile users then the following points have to be kept in mind:
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- Avoid Flash banners.
- Strictly follow the mobile design guidelines and outlines
- Do not use frames.
- Avoid adding heavy files on website.
- Research keywords for mobile users (Avoid long phrase keyword).
- Add keywords in title tags, H1 tags, H2's and in the content itself.
- Keyword rich anchor text is useful for internal links.
- Add mobile sitemap so that Google will categorize your mobile Web site
- Use separate CSS files for mobile and on screen rendering.
- Use %s for sizes instead of pixels as it will help ensure things scale down.
- Avoid scrollers.
- Hide items in the mobile CSS or re-arrange an item to ensure that content isn’t pushed too far down the mobile page.
- Submission of mobile sites to mobile search engines.
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Below is the list of mobile search engines.
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The following search engines are the major players in mobile search at this time.
- Google Mobile
- Yahoo! Mobile
- MSN Mobile Search
- AOL Mobile Search
- Nokia Mobile Search
- 4INFO Mobile Search
If I have missed out on any major mobile search engines, please do let me know.”
5 comments:
Are there any mobile friendly job search sites besides craigslist?
Hey great post!! Mobile SEO penetration according to a recent article in Marketing Week is set to over take desktop SEO by 2013. Google have backed this up by saying that between 12% and 20% of searches originate from a mobile device.
Such a great post regarding mobile SEO. Mobile technology is now a days very booming in search industry. In this time, mobile SEO is very important to get traffic on mobile users.
Yes, I agree with your all points. We must keep in mind all these points while doing mobile seo. I think one of the major thing in mobile seo is Keyword phrases so we should also careful about keyword phrase while doing mobile seo.
I think these points are very important for us. So we should keep in mind these points.
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