Once second-hand or refurbished phones are sold on eBay, the most important phase of your mobile phone life cycle has probably ended. Link building: Find sites that rank in this phase by already Googling for keyword combinations like "iphone 5s" or...
I have seen many agencies espousing the benefits of having a mobile SEO strategy based on creating differentiated, purely mobile experiences but it would appear to me that as device fragmentation continues, it would be better to help a brand...
You may want to use responsive design to handle different screen sizes on phones and tablets. Do most of your visitors arrive via a mobile device? In contrast, non-competitive sites can sometimes "win" when just one or two things right.
Facebook makes it easier for advertisers to run ads on feature phones only – InsideFacebook"Feature phones only" now an option in the "creative ad placements" section of Power Editor and Ads API. Bing is retiring features: "creating deals, coupons...
Google wins FTC Technology Achievement Award for crowd-sourced system to reduce robocalls (a.k.a.spam) to mobile and landline phones. After slamming Google AdWords for taking control away from customers, Bing says "…we do not believe bundling...
Outside the U.S.and in many other countries mobile is the dominant way to access Internet – often not even via smartphones ("features phones" with limited browsers are popular in India). Create platform-specific content – Android content for...
The remaining students all owned Android phones. And it makes complete sense as mobile keeps booming. I will remember that tons of sites have been destroyed by Panda, and that it’s cool that there are over a billion Facebook users.
Smartphones might not be used to complete transactions, and might only employed when we start research, but it's a vital part of many consumers online behaviors – and that can only grow as smartphone penetration rises and "dumb" phones are...
Local search and mobile devices including mobile phones, tablets, laptops and any other future mobile engagement tool (probably invented by a kid whom will thrive and succeed to be the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates) are married together for years...
Because the real estate on smart phones is very small, PPC ads are either shown at the top or bottom of the search results page. The same holds true with mobile sites. Approximately 40 percent of all mobile searches on Google have local intent, and...
For more than three years the Department of Transportation has been working to reduce the dangerous trend of distracted driving – the practice of texting, talking on phones, checking email when you should be driving.
Search is not happening on phones; people are using apps. Equally there can be an annoying specificity required needed to differentiate between say, actual web destinations for hotels versus aggregator and review sites - which is a problem I find...
However, after this test run, we still prefer Google, which is even faster and easier to use directly from Android phones – especially those with Ice Cream Sandwich 4.X versions, which have a default Google search tab at the top of your home screens.
As you can see what helps users with usability challenges, also helps your site’s usability for all users on mobile devices, tablets and feature phones. We can’t have a discussion on mobile sites without some mention of viewports.
The other common issue that will hopefully be sorted out quickly by Google will be when desktop pages have more than one alternative mobile page; for instance one on the 'm.for phones and another on a 't.for tablets.
Some of the insights within mShopper’s data might be of little surprise in the context of certain product categories demonstrating higher mobile conversion rates and visits from mobile phones. The case is also similar for add-to-cart rates, and one...
Now, you know that millions of people are using mobile devices every day, but did you know that dozens are still using rotary phones? And did you know that 100 percent of people using rotary phones have trouble accessing your website?
Finally, Wilensky made mention of a new smartphone Google Mobile bot looks at smart versus feature phones, not device type. The biggest SEO issue regardless with mobile sites is in dealing with and mitigating divided link equity.
Google noted that mobile searches have grown by 400 percent over the last two years, with 84 percent of UK users claiming to have looked up local information on their phones. Google has unveiled a campaign which will aim to help UK businesses...
Historically, Googlebot-Mobile has concerned itself only with mobile sites designed for feature phones, so this is a pretty significant development. Mobile sites that don’t support feature phones should use a same URL strategy - i.e.one where the...
