Its official now, Search Engine Optimizers have moved to the Mobile SEO!
Mobile industry has witnessed “catastrophic” growth in last few years. As per a recent research there will be more than 931 million new mobile subscribers over the next 5 years. By 2007, the total worldwide wireless population will exceed two billion subscribers! With tremendous growth in mobile industry raises the scope for other allied services, one of which is Mobile search. Blog was a big story of 2005 and mobile search is going to be the next big thing for 2006.
Great numbers of mobile users are now turning to their mobile devices to find web content, products and services. According to Forrester Research, 15% of mobile services subscribers accessed the Internet from their devices in 2005, compared to only 6% in 2004. Forrester expects that number to increase again in 2006. The main growth is predicted to come from still-emerging markets, including Brazil, China, and India. As of the end of 2003, China was the largest mobile market followed by the US, Japan, Germany, and Italy. By 2009, EMC predicts China and the US will stay at the top, but be followed by India, Brazil, and Japan.
Mobile SEO experts help optimize your website to rank high on mobile search engines. Mobile SEO approaches are bit different than the conventional SEO process in a way that it’s more technical and one has to work along very limited parameters.
Mobile Search Engines:
A good list of WAP/ Mobile search engines can be found at mce_href=”http://www.palowireless.com/wap/searchengines.asp” target=”_blank”>WAP Search Engines. Some of the more popular ones are
Google Mobile
Yahoo! Mobile
MSN Mobile Search
AOL Mobile Search
Nokia Mobile Search
Technorati Mobile
4INFO Mobile Search
The two most crucial steps in Mobile SEO are as follows:
Making your website mobile search engine compatible by designing in WML 2.0 or XHTML 1.0 code. “Space” is the biggest challenge with Mobile SEO. This would mean writing short and concise title tag, description tag, keyword rich page content, keyword rich anchor text, H1, cross-linking of pages etc.,
SEOValley Solutions Private Limited is proud to offer Mobile SEO (search engine optimization) services with our development centre in India. We offer Mobile SEO consulting, planning and implementation service to capitalize on this emerging marketing vehicle.
Other Related Resources on Mobile SEO:
W3C Scope of Mobile Web Best Practices
Mobile Search: The Future of Online Marketing
Guide to mobile SEO
A Roundup of Local Mobile Search Tools
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