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Sometimes a company just needs to provide a new service or functionality, even if it’s a very basic one, but unique, to grab more market share and crush its competitors. Google just did that yesterday. They announced that any mobile site owner can now embed a Google Mobile Search box to its site. By “any”, [...]
AdMob announced yesterday that it will allow for the the first time iPhone applications developers to track clicks on ads that lead to a download of an application. Let me tell you that this claim is wrong, AdMob is not the first to provide this kind of tracking. I cannot tell you who was the [...]
Taptu, a pure mobile search engine that I reviewed a while ago on this post just announced that it has won $9.6 million in extra funding from its existing investors. This news confirms that there is still room for growth in the mobile search market. Taptu is specialized in mobile content search, as opposed to [...]
If you’re a mobile content provider, then you’ll enjoy the new feature available in Google AdWords. You can now display ads exclusively for the iPhone and Google’s G1. For example, if you are providing games for the iPhone, you can run AdWords Campaigns to only target these users, so you’ll get more targeted users when [...]
I blogged last month about the mobile search deal that was being tied up between T-Mobile USA and Yahoo!. It has officially been announced today. T-Mobile USA has launched a new mobile portal called web2go, that has a Yahoo! OneSearch searchbox right at the top of the page, according to a screenshot from Venture Beat. [...]
This morning I’ve been reading a good guide to mobile search from CellPhones.org. Another interesting find is that 2.6 million WordPress pages exist with the tag “add new tag”. Seems WordPress need to add a safeguard to the tag system somewhere. Thanks to Keith from F1 Fanatic for the tip. Marcus found a way to [...]
Following on from my blog posts about mobile SEO and how to make your site mobile friendly a new service called MoFuse caught my eye. MoFuse takes your existing blog and in a couple of clicks turns it into a mobile friendly site. You can even embed some php code into your WordPress blog that [...]
People searching on the normal web version of Google are given a list of results matching their query. In a simple terms these results are ranked according to the number (and quality) of other websites that have voted for them using links. In Google’s algorithm a link = a vote and the more votes a [...]
Making sure your website is mobile phone friendly should be a priority for any business that wants to be found on the mobile web. There are several different methods involved but the first step is to register your .mobi domain. Some people like to actually use the .mobi domain as a seperate website but I [...]
Mobile SEO is quite a confusing term. I’ve been around the SEO industry for years and am involved in mobile application development but still the term is confusing. The reason it’s confusing it because nobody quite knows what mobile SEO actually involves. In a new series on Blogstorm I will take a look at what [...]