Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'mobile'

Last week, we discovered a new beta Google keyword tool that was way more advanced than the current one and which will ultimately replace the current one. Besides for all the nice new reports and cooler interface, with advanced filters...

Posted on September 27, 2009 9:46 AM

The topic of cloaking or IP deliver or useragent delivery is always a very touchy topic in the SEO industry. I am not going to get into the history, but in short, webmasters can use various methods to show GoogleBot...

Posted on September 4, 2009 8:30 AM

Many sites feature a way to print a page of your site in a printer friendly view, by removing many of the ads, removing a lot of the navigation and so on. The issue with this, in some cases, is...

Posted on August 25, 2009 9:08 AM

A few weeks ago, the Apple App store for the iPhone gained its first app to manage Google AdWords campaigns. The app was developed by Webdevs.com and enables AdWords advertiser to manage their campaigns on the go. The application can...

Posted on August 19, 2009 8:33 AM

Early April, many mobile users, who use Google Mobile for News, noticed that Google News on their mobile device was not updating. In fact, the news was outdated for days on their devices. The issue seemed to have resolved itself...

Posted on April 17, 2009 9:00 AM

Want Google to implement a new feature for Google Mobile? You no longer need to venture to Google Groups to make the request. Simply hop on over to http://productideas.appspot.com/ and submit your product ideas. So far, according to the stats,...

Posted on December 31, 2008 8:46 AM

A Google Webmaster Help thread has discussion around a webmaster who noticed Google is treating his mobile site as a duplicate site to his main site. This user has his mobile site on a subdomain of m.domain.com, where his main...

Posted on December 30, 2008 8:38 AM

In a Google Groups thread, AdWordsPro Sarah offers some nice optimization tips for mobile users. She acknowledges that they shouldn't be ignored; there are 405 million mobile users worldwide, she says. If you want a business presence in the mobile...

Posted on December 15, 2008 9:42 AM

Are you a heavy user of Google Maps for Mobile? Google has announced that both Street View and Walking Directions have been added to the handheld application. If you want to see it in action, go to google.com/gmm from your...

Posted on September 18, 2008 10:37 AM

Google Webmaster Tools is full of useful things, including mobile web page errors and warnings. A new warning that was spotted was on the size of your mobile web pages. We have two threads on the topic, one at WebmasterWorld...

Posted on September 2, 2008 8:28 AM

Earlier this week, Reuters said that Google has announced technology to provide brand images on cell phones. In other words, based on a user's query, they'll be provided with some sort of image advertisement that has been scaled to fit...

Posted on April 25, 2008 9:25 AM

Google renders their ads on an Apple iPhone almost exactly like they would on a normal web browser, but with a few changes. (1) It appears that Google will not show as on the right hand side of the search...

Posted on April 1, 2008 8:17 AM

A ZDNet editor was looking at Google's robots.txt file when he stumbled upon an entry for http://www.google.com/m/lcb. It looks to him like a brand new Google Mobile interface that can pinpoint your approximate location and give you suggested places to...

Posted on March 25, 2008 9:48 AM

Bryson Meunier posted a characteristics of the top 100 mobile search queries at AT&T. The top five keywords, in order, are "google," "yahoo," "sports," "facebook," and "myspace." Further, Bryson says that mobile users are looking for navigational options as opposed...

Posted on January 31, 2008 9:15 AM

A Cre8asite Forums member asks how a site is differentiated by Google as a mobile site or as a regular website that may not be included in Google's mobile web search. What are the criteria for being categorized as a...

Posted on December 11, 2007 9:45 AM

Google is testing technology that will find you if you're lost, as long as you're equipped with a cell phone (and even if the cell phone doesn't have a GPS receiver). The new tracking feature introduced Wednesday is being touted...

Posted on November 30, 2007 9:09 AM

Yesterday, Google announced the Open Handset Alliance: open source mobile software. WebmasterWorld reaction is mixed. Some feel that Microsoft is threatened, whereas others think that the average consumer will probably not opt in for Google's mobile operating system because they...

Posted on November 6, 2007 9:13 AM

First came Google Voice Search, and now Microsoft has followed suit. The LA Times reports that Microsoft has rolled out Live Search Mobile: Live Search Mobile, which users have to download to their handsets, displays listings and driving directions on...

Posted on October 18, 2007 9:44 AM

Yesterday, Google announced that it had acquired Jaiku, a microblogging platform similar to my favorite Twitter. According to Google's announcement, current Jaiku members are still able to use the service but Google is now focused on expanding the technology behind...

Posted on October 10, 2007 9:15 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread points to recent research on mobile search in a document entitled Deciphering Trends in Mobile Search (PDF link). The Google team (a Ph.D student and senior staff researcher) analyzed data on over 1 million page views from...

Posted on October 9, 2007 9:47 AM

The Yahoo! Search Blog has announced that Yahoo! Site Explorer is out of beta. Yahoo has also announced that Site Explorer has added functionality for users to submit sitemaps for their mobile device-friendly websites through the control panel. WebmasterWorld has...

Posted on April 16, 2007 12:20 PM

Chris Sherman starts the session off by introducing Mobile Search as an ever-increasing build-up of new ideas that will soon catch up with earlier expectations of consumers. You can't optimise for mobile in the same way as you do for...

Posted by evilgreenmonkey on April 10, 2007 3:34 PM

A post on Cre8asite Forums asks if Google is considering addressing the needs for mobile users when they search. The member says that web results that are tailored to mobile phones are mixed with regular web results that may not...

Posted on April 2, 2007 6:59 AM

Yesterday Google announced Gmail Mobile Client, where you go to http://gmail.com/app on your mobile device and it detects the necessary software to install on that device. So the first thing I did was try it out on my Treo 700p....

Posted on November 3, 2006 6:59 AM

The seventh edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. This show was jammed packed with coverage from the past three weeks. We introduced the show with a look at how the industry including Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Ask.com and...

Posted on November 1, 2006 2:33 PM

I am not going to do an other review of Ask Mobile Search, I did so already at SEW blog. You can access Ask Mobile search at http://m.ask.com/ or http://mobile.ask.com/. A WebmasterWorld forum thread asks why is no one complaining...

Posted on October 13, 2006 8:52 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks when will we see Google AdSense ads for mobile sites? Currently, you can put AdSense on normal web sites and RSS feeds. But when will we see Google add the ability to place ads on your...

Posted on October 9, 2006 7:24 AM

Tracking your metrics is vital in today's world of marketing, no one would argue with that. But when it comes to tracking PPC campaigns down to the phone call, it can get expensive and cumbersome. Discovery, Moderator at SEW Forums...

Posted on September 26, 2006 7:16 AM