Link reputation is critical to your search engine optimisation—the topicality and trustworthiness of the linking site, the backlink anchor text concentration and your link acquisition trends are all key off-page factors that influence your own site’s authority and hence its Web Search rankings. But are there any parallels that can be drawn on the Mobile Web?
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Novarra - a leading provider of wireless platforms - have announced a partnership with Yahoo! Mobile to provide transcoding for their oneSearch service.
oneSearch is a search facility integrated into Yahoo! Mobile’s portal application - Go 2.0 - with a remit to “understand the type of search you’re doing and optimise the results accordingly” … based on what you’re actually doing in the portal.
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Since the 2004 co-operation agreement - entered into by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) - both browser and content developers have been waiting for this progress milestone.
Last Friday, 13th July 2007, marked the release of the Candidate Recommendation for XHTML Basic 1.1.
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The feedback from MoMoNY Mobile SEO panel discussion has been very positive — and as expected, brought to light some interesting topics.
One of the concerns raised — which is contributing to the low level of content discovery across the Mobile Web — is the lack of outbound linking by mobile webmasters. This prompted me to do some basic (non-scientific) comparisons.
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Since declaring this blog open a couple of colleagues have suggested that I mobilize the site using an online service, so I thought I’d do a quick review of what’s currently available.
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January - March 2007
Stumbled over some interesting figures released by m-spatial - a leading UK mobile local search platform - for Quarter 1.
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The ‘Mobile Web’ consists [ mostly ] of three types of Markup Language that we need to know about:
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Over at the MWI Team Blog, Philipp Hoschka, co-founder and leader of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative, puts forward a coherent outline of the Mobile Web’s full potential.
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A panel discussion dedicated to Mobile SEO will take place at Samsung’s Experience Center, New York, on Mobile Monday 25th June.
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First things first — I need to choose a route to the mobile web and I have identified three options to discuss, each tangent with its own merits.
1. Choose my mTLD from dotMobi, e.g. mobile-seo.mobi
2. Add a subdomain to the existing root, e.g. mobi.mobile-seo.co.uk
3. Use CSS to support mobile pages from www.mobile-seo.co.uk
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