Comments on: Enter the World of Mobile Domains http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2009/04/02/enter-the-world-of-mobile-domains/ Web hosting blog - industry news, trends, products and discussions. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:31:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Gary Taylor http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/2009/04/02/enter-the-world-of-mobile-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Gary Taylor Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:06:26 +0000 http://webhostinggeeks.com/blog/?p=270#comment-102 The current difference between optimisation for PC web and the mobile web is vast. Getting your site to rank within the mobile SERPs such as http://www.google.com/m (perform a search then click on "MOBILE") requires submission of a new XML sitemap, and changes within the HTML for the search engines to recognise the mobile version of your site and rank it accordingly. At the moment this only scratches the surface. Integrating your mobile site to work in sync with your actually website is another chapter in the book. There is a difference of opinion at the moment as to where a mobile site should be hosted as a subdomain or on a completely different domain name. Methods include anysubdomain.yoursite.com, yoursite.mobi and m.yoursite.com, but these are all down to preference and your own SEO strategy. One thing for sure is that mobile domains and mobile seo are only in the foetal stages in terms of potential.Companies in the UK such as oneresult.co.uk are making innovative advancements in mobile search but still the current mobile web is not being utilised anywhere near enough as it could be. The next few years for mobile internet will be very interesting indeed. The current difference between optimisation for PC web and the mobile web is vast. Getting your site to rank within the mobile SERPs such as http://www.google.com/m (perform a search then click on “MOBILE”) requires submission of a new XML sitemap, and changes within the HTML for the search engines to recognise the mobile version of your site and rank it accordingly. At the moment this only scratches the surface.

Integrating your mobile site to work in sync with your actually website is another chapter in the book. There is a difference of opinion at the moment as to where a mobile site should be hosted as a subdomain or on a completely different domain name. Methods include anysubdomain.yoursite.com, yoursite.mobi and m.yoursite.com, but these are all down to preference and your own SEO strategy.

One thing for sure is that mobile domains and mobile seo are only in the foetal stages in terms of potential.Companies in the UK such as oneresult.co.uk are making innovative advancements in mobile search but still the current mobile web is not being utilised anywhere near enough as it could be. The next few years for mobile internet will be very interesting indeed.

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