Mobile SEO
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.
Why MSN fails to conquer the world!
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Seattle's Wong Doody needs Web Site Help
I just joined the Ad Club of Seattle in the hopes of meeting some good people I can recruit away from the tradtional ad business into our nefarious circle (insert devious grin icon). As I was checking out u...
Investigating the RedZee Search Engine
As much as I like their cool zebra logo, it appears that RedZee.com (link left out on purpose) is using a slew of bad tactics to attempt to gain popularity in the search space. I haven't personally seen referrals from them, yet, but some others have and base...
Build Your Own Search Engine
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Ask Jeeves Does Gift Search
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Digging up Dirty DNS Deeds
SamSpade.org has a fantastic collection of tools for digging up everything from falsified IP addresses to browsing the web anonymously to checking traceroutes, running whois and reverse lookups and much more. The site's super-clean, minimalis...
A Little Bit Naughty
Google's SafeSearch feature doesnt' strongly affect most of us in the non-adult industry, but I came across a fun little tool yesterday that I thought was worth mentioning. Monzy's UnSafe Search is a play on Google's adult filtering and conducts a search at Google with SafeSearch on and off, then filters out those results that...
Librarian's Directory
The two groups most commonly associated by search engines as being interested in things like link data and information retrieval technology, outside of their own engineers, are librarians & SEOs. The first group are typically lauded while the second receives both internal and external...
SearchLore
Came across an interesting site today called SearchLore. There's an older but excellent article there on the subject of deep searching and deep indexing - it covers a wide variety of issues and has a great 3D mod...
Map Wars - Google Maps vs. MSN Virtual Earth
The map wars is on, go visit Ryan's map fight site to determine for yourself which map is better. On my short visit, Google clearly has the usability edge, while MSN is far better at finding the right location, even...