Posts Tagged ‘Mobile SEO’

M-Commerce Websites: An Important Business Aspect

By amitk On 2010/02/22 | 8 Comments

What is M-Commerce and why do we need it? This question is quite simple but the answer to it may differ depending upon your business needs. M-Commerce is the latest trend in which business firms looking out for online expansion choose to have a mobile website for faster business promotion. Some of the examples where M-Commerce website is presently being used are: iPhone, Nokia N-Series, Samsung Devices and Google’s T-Mobile G1 with Andriod OS.

What is M-Commerce?

M-Commerce is a term used for transactions conducted by mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) for promotional and financial activities using wireless internet connectivity. Mobile Commerce, commonly referred to as M-Commerce, brings the newest possibility for small business to sell and promote their products and services through the medium of mobile devices.
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What is a Mobile Sitemap?

By amitk On 2010/01/1 | 7 Comments

Mobile Sitemaps – Crawling & indexing of Mobile sites

Mobile sites are in trend, they act simply as website but meant for Mobile users. Just like general websites, it is important that search engines crawl and index our mobile sites as well for better visibility of the sites to search engine users. Mobile Sitemaps can help your website to be crawled better by search engine robots. Things to be considered here is – What is a Mobile Sitemap, How to create a Mobile Sitemap and uses of Mobile Sitemap in Google crawling and indexing and latest formats used in creation of Mobile Sitemap.

How can you make your Mobile site visible to mobile users? This is not very different from a desktop Website. Search engines use crawlers/robots to crawl new sites on the web. They use software called “Spider” for crawling websites. Once spider finds your site, they follow the links it contains and collect all relevant information. If you renew the content or add a page in your Website and worried about how search engines will know it; then know the fact that very often Spiders revisit your site to track changes if made.
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Google Analytics for Mobile Sites

By amitk On 2009/12/14 | 1 Comment

If you are looking to track Mobile Users for your Website and you have no clue how to do it with Google Analytics or Mobiles analytics. As in my Previous post i had discuss some Analytics tools for Mobile Devices and Craig Hordlow post suggested how to track mobile users using regular expressions.

A new concept for the same purpose, Google Analytics has presented. Now we can track traffic without using filters and creating separate profiles. It’s simple with Google Analytics. You just need to create a new segment through Advanced Segmentation to track number of mobile users on your site.

For this, firstly, setup a custom segment in Google analytics so that we can compare mobile traffic to desktop traffic or smart-phone traffic to mobile traffic.
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Mobile SEO and Analytics Tools

By amitk On 2009/12/10 | 7 Comments

These days Internet is widely used on mobiles. This can bring new possibilities for SEO’s as marketers look forward to take advantages of the opportunity, inherent in mobile search in 2008. There are lots of tools that can help you in Mobile SEO.

1) Mobile Analytics: To track users much better.

2) Mobilizers: To get them Mobile faster.

3) Mobile Directories: To get more new One Way links and gain Link Popularity.

4) Mobile Validators and Emulators: To become Accessible by Search Engines and

get more Mobile Users.

Now let’s have a look to the options available, their advantages and disadvantages.
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