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Mobile Search Optimization Tips

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mobile SEOThanks to Nokia, Motorola and all the mushrooming mobile phone companies, mobile Internet surfing is fast-becoming a worldwide trend. And as a webmaster or as an ambitious entrepreneur who knows that an online presence can only increase your bottom line, how do you make sure you don’t get outdated?

Mobile search optimization is the solution!

Here are some excellent optimization tips from Ross Dunn, the CEO of the SEM company Stepforth, if you want your site emerge as one which is well-armed when it comes to mobile searching:

1. Get a .mobi top level domain to create a mobile version of your site that will make your site easily viewed using mobile phones.

2. Design a mobile compliant website. Mobile site building resources:
- MobisiteGalore
- PC Dev
- Wireless FAQ
- W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group

3. SEO your mobile site using common SEO strategies such as using descriptive title tags, headings, easy navigation and creating focused content on each page. More conciseness in creating content for your mobile site is required since there’s not much screen space for mobile searching compared to using a PC. A Google Mobile Sitemap is also major consideration to get Google updated about your mobile website.

4. Promote your mobile site through submitting it to Yahoo! Mobile, sending out press releases, inform .mobi about your mobile site for possible free publicity, including your mobile URL on your main website and on your business cards, etc.

Here are the details of this mobile search engine optimization discussion.

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Posted in SEO techniques on December 16th, 2006

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