Mobile SEO

Mobile SEO helpdesk: Frames in mobile sites

Mobile SEO helpdesk?

... well at least it feels like I am running a mobile SEO helpdesk.  After writing about my charity situation I have been inundated with emails and requests.

 

Like I said before, I can’t answer everything. But one problem seems to be very very common.  It is the issue of frames on a website.  Now this is very dear to my heart as when I was starting out a few years ago – this problem hit me on the head like a hammer and I had no idea what to do.

 

I had a killer mobile site.  Top Mobile OK marks but the minute I re-directed it to my new domain  name  frames appeared and I went to a ready.mobi score of 2.

 

This seems to be happening a lot (based on the number of emails I received – 6). So this is what you do.

 

When you use a site creation company to create your mobile site – it is NOT enough to simply re-direct a URL to that site.

Domains need to have a DNS A Name record.  If they don’t the host (e.g. GoDaddy) can add frames to your mobile site.

Once you have this A Name record – you need to point it to the server of the host.  So this is NOT GoDaddy but any one of the mobile site creation companies you have chosen.

I use GoDaddy and have done this in easy steps:

1.       Get the A Name record from your mobile site creation company

2.       Go to your domain provider

3.       Go into domain manager

4.       Select your domain

5.       Look for total DNS control or DNS control

6.       If you cant find anything search for ARecord (all together)

7.       When you see it click on it to change

8.       Replace the address there with the one given to you by your mobile site company

9.       Wait up to 24 hours

10.   All done.

Your site will be back to normal and mobile ready!

Ultra simple mobile seo for beginners

GoMo News and visibility mobile love helping those in the charity sector. So, when I got this email from the owner of a charity in Germany - I had to respond.  I have translated this from the German original as best I could.

Question:Bena. Your site Mobile SEO News came to the top of my Google search on SEO in Mobile and I wondered if you could help me?

We are a charity in Bayern and I know you are based in Seeheim-Jugenheim - is there a very low cost way to take my site to mobile?  Will you consider doing it for us for free?  Do I need a mobile site or just to mobile search my online site.

Bena's Answer: Hi. Thanks for your email. As you can imagine I get a lot of emails requesting me to help them and I can't help everyone for free.  But I took a look at your site and taking it mobile or getting it in search results will be very easy.

Before I answer, I want you to think what you want from a mobile site. Is it just to be mobile or do you want to get customers, do SMS services that can make your charity money?  I can only help when you know what you want. But I can suggest the following if you are nowhere on mobile at the moment.

You have 5 graphics on the page and not too much content.  The site is a very simple blog.  To get it onto mobile you can use a rendering engine like Skweezer (www.skweezer.com) and then redirect your online site to your mobile site or promote it via a mobile button (Mippin www.mippin.com will also do this for you)

But if you want to get instant benefits on mobile for SEO- follow these simple steps:

Create an XML feed (pointing to your content)

Dont worry about your pictures - mobile sites should be very clean and as a start just getting your content mobilised will help you.

Go to a free mobile site creation company - zinadoo www.zinadoo.com , wapple www.wapple.net , mofuse www.mofuse.com , winksite www.winksite.com  and make a site with our your feed and then submit a sitemap (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps) to Google see here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34627

Just for you I have created a feed for you and a sitemap to submit to Google- see attached.

When you do this - I would start mobile search submission see here: http://www.mobileseonews.com/2008/12/mobile-search-e.html

OK, its not rocket science and its the very basics but I hope it helps any true beginners.

Niall Cusack interview on GoMo News

Link to an interview on GoMo News with Niall Cusack CTO visibility mobile

http://www.gomonews.com/niall-cusack-cto-visibility-mobile-on-mobile-seo-and-metatxtorg/

Presentation on visibility mobile, mobile seo

This is the full version of a presentation I created last year. It is now my task to renew and refresh it with real live case studies - metatxt and the launch of our first ever mobile search wizard (which 20 webmasters downloaded on the first day of launch alone last week - huge thanks).

SEO for Mobile by visibility mobile

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