Mobile SEO - Optimization & Marketing

Greater smartphone penetration = more mobile web searches and views. Mobile search is an important component for online marketing to increase exposure traffic to your website.

FatKing Best Practices for Mobile SEO:

Code your site in valid XHTML Mobile 1.0, not WAP/WML. Have a fast-loading site with pages < 20KB/page. Don't use Flash. Stick with JavaScript for image effects. Use standard SEO practices on your website.

Mobile Search Marketing Steps

Mobile SEO and search marketing is still in its infancy and poses challenges as you try to fit content into a very small form factor used by people that are on the go and whose phones often use predictive searches. With that said, keep in mind that most mobile searches are location-specific and activity-specific.

1. Create and submit a Mobile Sitemap to the search engines.

2. Install Google Mobile Analytics on your website.

3. Sign up for Google Adwords account and start running Mobile Ads.

4. Sign up with AdMob for running mobile ads (recently acquired by Google).

The Top 3 Smartphones: iPhone, Blackberry, Droid