http://www.seoprinciple.com Nadir Garouche's blog on SEO and Mobile Search. News, tips, commentary, rants and random stuff. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:54:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When you use Google Search from your mobile phone, you see two kinds of web pages results: traditional web pages (the same ones that you'll see from your desktop) and mobile web pages. To build its index of mobile web sites, Google uses a different bot than the traditional GoogleBot. ... http://www.seoprinciple.com/introduction-to-googlebot-mobile-how-does-google-build-its-mobile-sites-index/08/ If you're doing SEO for mobile sites, you may have noticed recently that Youtube mobile pages are all over the place in Google Mobile search engine results (mobile web). For any kind of query typed, you'll see one or more Youtube links in the first result page. And very often, ... http://www.seoprinciple.com/do-youtube-pages-get-special-treatment-in-google-mobile-search/31/ Since I started doing Mobile SEO about 2 years ago, the main problem that I've encountered in my duties was that there's no way to identify unique visitors when it comes to mobile surfing. Indeed, as opposed to the desktop Web, where cookies or IP addresses (sometimes combined with user ... http://www.seoprinciple.com/mobile-web-bango-offers-a-way-to-track-unique-visitors/22/ When you just arrive in a new town and are looking for a good restaurant, the only way for most people is to use their cell phone and call a local directory, or use a search engine. But besides finding a name and a location for the type of restaurant ... http://www.seoprinciple.com/local-mobile-search-google-launches-user-reviews/18/ Google China is apparently using an offline marketing campaign to recruit new users for its mobile search engine. DWGoogle.cn has posted some photos of outdoor advertisements located in the subway station of Guangzhou. Google seems to have chosen this area of China because the cost of Internet data is the ... http://www.seoprinciple.com/google-using-offline-marketing-in-china-to-promote-its-mobile-search-engine/04/ Yahoo announced on Tuesday that its mobile search service will be offered by six more telecom companies in Asia. It has reached 60 partnerships so far which represents a potential user base of 600 million subscribers. (Source: Reuters) Considering that over 3.3 billion people in the world own a mobile phone ... http://www.seoprinciple.com/yahoo-mobile-search-potential-to-reach-600-million-users/17/ Below is a concept video of Firefox Mobile, currently being developed by Mozilla Labs. You really need to watch it, note that the final version may not look like what is presented here but it does explains the directions Mozilla is thinking in : touch screen interface, large screen, hidden ... http://www.seoprinciple.com/firefox-mobile/12/ So on Monday I mentioned that a mobile search company was about to launch a mobile game search service. It's now formally official, the company in question is abphone, a mobile content search engine based in France. abphone may have a low profile but it's currently a very popular off-portal mobile ... http://www.seoprinciple.com/abphone-launches-mobile-game-search-service/04/ A well known mobile search company will announce tomorrow the launch of the first mobile games search service. What I can tell you is that this will be a threat for big branded mobile search players such as Google or Yahoo! It's already possible to search for off-portal mobile content such ... http://www.seoprinciple.com/mobile-games-search/02/ During advance08, Microsoft's online advertising leadership forum held in Redmond, the company announced that display advertising (banner ads) was now available across two Windows Live for mobile services, and also "the launch of new markets for Windows Live for mobile services and upcoming advertising plans for its Live Search Mobile ... http://www.seoprinciple.com/microsoft-announces-display-advertising-on-windows-live-for-mobile-services-plus-mobile-search-advertising/22/