tricks to improve SEO ?

[machino]

hi

does anyone have any tricks they use to improve mobile SEO ?

[Guard Dog]

So far as I've heard, it is essentially the same... Since mobile is a different 'beast' so to speak you would want to develop for the mobile platform. This means creating code that will publish and render on the widest variety of mobile devices. Proper XHTML (adhering strictly to guidelines) would be extremely smart.

To take advantage of ALL devices, you would probably want to detect the browser type and render content appropriate to the device. Many of the larger businesses do this (i.e., the Best Buy's of the world). Detecting browser (i.e, device) helps tremendously in ensuring that the end user isn't seeing a page that is either confusing or distorted.

Typical 'Best Practices' (IMO) are:

1. Decrease outlinks for phone-enabled pages. Create specialized mobile pages with site interlinking, but not outlinking unless they are going to a 'sales page' where you get affiliate credit for the outlink.

2. Use normal SEO, but consolidate page information so that it is not either unusable or overload for a mobile user. This means decreasing content to make it more specific and keeping the same keyword density.

3. While this makes little sense for casinos... for other websites, localization is key. Phones are search-based and use localization services to render search results. This means that your website may rank better depending upon location. Are you trying to rank for local Dentist offices?? That is easier when a user searches from YOUR locale.



That is my experience with mobile and my knowledge based upon building some pages that were geared towards the Palm WebOS operating system as well as Android OS.

Edit: And, BTW, HTML5 would be good to become aware of as well.

[AussieDave]

does anyone have any tricks they use

Sucessful SEO is not about using "tricks". Sure some tweaks my work for a short period. However the key to producing decent serps is maintaining a white-hat SEO policy.

Follow this path 'grasshopper' and it will return many long term gains.

[itsblitz]

Im trying out a redirect plugin called wptap mobile redirect to direct visitors using a mobile to a custom landing page for their handset, be it iphone, ipad etc, the plugin identifies the handset and serves up the correct page, i have only been trying it out for a few weeks so its to early to say if its good for seo or bad

[michael26a]

Sucessful SEO is not about using "tricks".

Very true. There's no tricks for good SEO, just a lot of hard work, research, and link building.

Just a quick question, is the mobile market worth going after? Are there a lot of mobile casinos out there to promote? This is something I still need to learn about, don't really know anything about it

[casinorecommender]

SEO is not a game to cheat ! It is a sciebce and needs intensive work with patience. Please refer to Googoe Webmaster Tools and make Google search instead of forum help request. It is just a recommendation.

Very true. There's no tricks for good SEO, just a lot of hard work, research, and link building.

Just a quick question, is the mobile market worth going after? Are there a lot of mobile casinos out there to promote? This is something I still need to learn about, don't really know anything about it

[Joan Digweed]

I can add: there are no tricks for good SEO, especially in casino/gambling nich! The competition here is too high! A lot of hard work and long period of time will make a success.

[lojo]

I think there might be "tricks" for mobile SEO. Andy's advice seems consistent with a lot of what I've read. I need to study this more.

[Kasinas]

When the competition is very high in SEO you should look at other traffic sources, especially social networks.

[lots0]

Im trying out a redirect plugin called wptap mobile redirect to direct visitors using a mobile to a custom landing page for their handset, be it iphone, ipad etc, the plugin identifies the handset and serves up the correct page, i have only been trying it out for a few weeks so its to early to say if its good for seo or bad

I find making pages specifically for handhelds is a waste of time.
In my opinion, it is best to design your site so it looks good no matter what screen size it is viewed with.