During Google Searchmasters Conference 2009, one of the presentations was about Mobile Web Design. The presentation, named “Building Mobile Friendly Websites” and held by Ankit Gupta, helped Indian webmasters understand why there is a need for mobile websites and provided guidance on how to build mobile friendly sites.
Here are some of the tips that were provided to the audience:
- Keep it simple: don’t use many internal links, minimal use cases, task oriented
- Always have a link to go back to the home page and to the previous page
- Make sure it is usable if stylesheets are disabled or not supported
- It was suggested to test your site with XHTML validators such as http://ready.mobi
Do’s and Don’t’s for a mobile XHTML website :
* Do
o Make use of accesskeys
o Resize images based on device size
o Use a good semantic structure (h1 before h2, etc)
o Make sure that the right doctype is being set
o Make sure that correct encoding is used
* Do not
o Use iframes and tables
o Use fancy form elements and multipart data
o Uploads
o Keep multiple scrolls
o Have links to unsupported doctypes
o Use pop ups
The presentation aslo talked about Mobile SEO, and explained how Google Mobile worked, that is, how it chooses which sites to include in its mobile index. Here is what was mentioned:
* Google classifies a website as mobile enabled based on certain signals like page layout, markups used, etc.
* When a user searches for “Mobile” websites only
o Only if the website is classified as Mobile websites by Google, it will show up
* When a user searches for “Everything”
o Google blends mobile websites with regular desktop websites
o Mobile websites get a boost if certain quality metrics hold
I explained in this post how Google blends mobile search results with regular web results, which you can read if you want to know more. Regarding the “quality metrics” mentioned in the last bullet above, I would have loved reading more specific details, but I would say these metrics include links and trafic.
You can watch a full video of this presentation on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05UMQjbce2o
The slides of the presentation are available here:
http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=ddrxs4sv_0jfrfjh5r&skipauth=true
Great Tips! It’s really helpful for developing a website Mobile Friendly…
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I find this article informative…thank you for clearing things up regarding about developing a website mobile friendly.I will apply this and information to see the result.
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With more and more sites be checked on the move, its useful to pass this information on to designers. This is something that is only going to get bigger as mobile browsing devices improve and become more used.
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Looking at the number of increasing MOBILE USER, specially in Asian countries like India an China, mobile seo & mobile marketing is going to be very very important
Google is certainly looking to dominate Mobile Search Marketing too.
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Some greater pointers here, thanks. Another point to add in the Do’s would be to use a good mobile anaytics company like Bango.com for example so that you can accurately monitor your visitors and optimise your marketing accordingly. At present Google’s own mobile analytics are far behind where they should be in terms of what they can actually monitor. Hence why I have recommended Bango instead.
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For the moment to be honest the mobile users are not my target anyway the idea of making one isn’t bad, maybe i should test and create such a website.
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Wow!! Its a great tool for mobile users to work with wireless devices like mobiles for its faster and easy access. Now, mobile users can also be targeted through this tool.
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I feel this is a good simply because it’s consistent with how the user is used to seeing the comment form and filling out information in general. Filling out the name and email wont take me much time, and if you really wanted to go ahead and type the comment first, you can do so, not really that big of a work around. I’m .
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I explained in this post how Google blends mobile search results with regular web results, which you can read if you want to know more.
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The presentation, named “Building Mobile Friendly Websites” and held by Ankit Gupta, helped Indian webmasters understand why there is a need for mobile websites and provided guidance on how to build mobile friendly sites.
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I explained in this post how Google blends mobile search results with regular web results, which you can read if you want to know more. Regarding the “quality metrics” mentioned in the last bullet above, I would have loved reading more specific details, but I would say these metrics include links and trafic.
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Great post, mobile sites have become very powerful due to everyone searching and go on the internet via cellphones, on a side note html5 will be playing a big part in development.
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