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If you just invaded the planet earth and want to know more about mobile search strategies then check out this blog post. Mobile Technology is getting better every year so it's time for all of us to work this into our to do lists. O dear, my opening line is very bad now isn't it? lol
Does Your Local Mobile Search Strategy suck?
Quote: If you are a small or local business, I bet it does. If you are a big business I bet it does too, but let’s stick with the small guys today.
Mobile usage is growing and because location is often at the heart of mobile search queries, mobile is important to businesses that rely on local search. But you know that already right? So what are you going to do about it?
Last spring, Cindy Krum put together an excellent piece on Mobile SEO. I highly recommend you check it out, but if your eyes glaze over whenever someone starts to talk about transcoding and mobile stylesheets, then forward the link to your Website developer and stick around. It’s time to get the executive summary on some basic facts:
For the purposes of this discussion, I looked at Google Analytics data for ten local retailers in the same industry (flooring) that have similar sites. Each business is located in a different U.S. city and none of them are doing anything to target mobile users on their sites. Here’s what I found... Continued at: http://searchengineland.com/does-your-local-mobile-search-strategy-suck-62082
Your thoughts on this blog post? Do you have anything to add? there is a great tutorial in that post on how to create a segment to track mobile visitors from analytics.
Mobile SEO is one of the thing that I want to get better at so thanks Snaky for pushing this out. The link to the other article about mobile SEO is great. Very complete article with lots to read! In case people missed this other blog post, i am posting it now.
Quote: I got a few emails about the Google Analytics part of this post on Mobile SEO that I thought it might be useful to break it out as a separate post. So here you go:
If you are a Google Analytics user I recommend setting up an Advanced Segment that filters reports by visitors who are classified as Mobile. Here
Does Your Local Mobile Search Strategy suck?
Quote: If you are a small or local business, I bet it does. If you are a big business I bet it does too, but let’s stick with the small guys today.
Mobile usage is growing and because location is often at the heart of mobile search queries, mobile is important to businesses that rely on local search. But you know that already right? So what are you going to do about it?
Last spring, Cindy Krum put together an excellent piece on Mobile SEO. I highly recommend you check it out, but if your eyes glaze over whenever someone starts to talk about transcoding and mobile stylesheets, then forward the link to your Website developer and stick around. It’s time to get the executive summary on some basic facts:
For the purposes of this discussion, I looked at Google Analytics data for ten local retailers in the same industry (flooring) that have similar sites. Each business is located in a different U.S. city and none of them are doing anything to target mobile users on their sites. Here’s what I found... Continued at: http://searchengineland.com/does-your-local-mobile-search-strategy-suck-62082
Your thoughts on this blog post? Do you have anything to add? there is a great tutorial in that post on how to create a segment to track mobile visitors from analytics.
Mobile SEO is one of the thing that I want to get better at so thanks Snaky for pushing this out. The link to the other article about mobile SEO is great. Very complete article with lots to read! In case people missed this other blog post, i am posting it now.
Quote: I got a few emails about the Google Analytics part of this post on Mobile SEO that I thought it might be useful to break it out as a separate post. So here you go:
If you are a Google Analytics user I recommend setting up an Advanced Segment that filters reports by visitors who are classified as Mobile. Here