Not too long ago, Google switched to a mobile-first index, meaning they use the mobile version of your site for ranking and indexing.
For the most part, mobile seo is very much the same as doing SEO for a desktop site, but there are a few particular points you want to pay attention to in order to maximize rankings and visibility.
Here, we've listed some of our top resources on mobile SEO, and you'll find the most recent blog posts below.
Mobile SEO : All the top resources to get you started learning mobile SEO in our free SEO learning center.
Mobile Optimization : Here, we dive into the specifics of what a mobile optimized page should look like.
The Mobile SEO Stack: Tools to Develop a Mobile-First SEO Process : Mobile SEO expert Aleyda Solis shares her own SEO tool stack for performing world-class mobile SEO.
What You Need to Know About Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs) : In this Whiteboard Friday, Will Chritchlow explains the basics of AMP, and how they differ from other mobile page.
SEO & Progressive Web Apps: Looking to the Future : Somewhere between a webpage and an app are PWAs, with benefits of both. Understand how these fit into the future of mobile SEO.
15% of internet usage is done on a mobile device, and that's expected to climb to 20% by the end of 2013. Review the facts to build the best mobile site you can, whether it's a separate mobile site, a responsive site, or a combination of the two.
Your customers are using mobile devices more than ever. Someone who downloads your app, though, isn't much help if they uninstall it shortly thereafter. It's time for a focus on mobile retention.
As the app ecosystem grows, many marketers are turning their sights towards mobile app marketing. Today's post provides a high-level view of App Store Optimization, and gives tips on how to break into the rapidly expanding world of apps.
We live in a multi-device world, and if you're still focused on improving your visibility, traffic, and conversions solely for desktop users, you're losing a great opportunity. Follow these steps to close the gap and connect with your audience, no matter what device they're searching from.
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How's your mobile SEO? In today's post, Aleyda Solis offers a supplement to her Mozinar and answers your questions on the mobile SEO process.
We've been hearing a lot recently about responsive design as the recommended approach for companies who want to become mobile-friendly. But what if you aren't able to implement a responsive design, or what if it's just not the right approach for your business model? Today's post shows you how to optimize a "different URL" mobile site as an alternative.
Mobile is a term we hear a lot about these days, but, as marketers, how can we tell what strategies work when consumers are looking for (and ultimately finding) information via mobile? In today's post, Robi Ganguly expands on his recent Mozinar and shares his tips on inbound marketing in the wonderful world of mobile apps.
This is the third and final installment in this mobile SEO blog post series, covering the impact of the new Google smartphone bot and how you can use it to make the most of your mobile content. This final post will review common search engine indexing problems that mobile sites and mobile platforms have, and how you can prevent them.
Not everyone realizes it, but Google has been serving different search results to mobile phones than desktop computers for a long time. Beyond that, they serve different results based solely on the handset you are using to search. The differences are often subtle, or focused on the order of Universal Results that are included in the mobile result-set, but Google is algorithmically trying to p...
There's SEO challenges, and then there's SEO mountains. In the world of search marketing, perhaps nothing seems more initially daunting than a site/brand/product/entity with little to no search volume. It's not commonplace, but in several sectors, particularly some sites in niche hobbies, the arts, nonprofits and startups, there can be times when what you're producing isn't something people are...
At the end of last year the website I work on, LocateTV, moved into the cloud with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to take advantage of increase flexibility and reduced running costs. A while after we switched I found that Googlebot was crawling the site almost twice as much as it used to. Looking into it some more I found that Google had been crawling the site f...
Earlier this year, Danny Sullivan of Third Door Media asked me if SEOmoz could put together some data comparing ranking elements of Google against those of Bing to help illustrate the potential biases SEOs might face when optimizing for the two engines. Today at SMX, I presented the following data, compiled by our own Ben Hendrickson with help from the entire SEO...
Historically, I've been fairly narrow in what I read in the blogosphere and tech arena (almost all SEO-centric stuff). You can see my Firefox sidebar list here, which hasn't changed much since 2008 with the exception of the blogs and news sections. But, over the past 6 months, I've been b...
This is the second post in a series of SEO Guides aimed at answering frequently asked SEO questions. (The first one was Properly move domains ) If you have an idea for another guide, please let me know if the comments below. Background: This is one element of a problem called internationalization. The internet evolved (or was intelligently designed for those no...