SEO Freelancer

G and Mobile Social Networks

Mobile social networking madness reached beaches of Google. As we remember G bought a tiny mobile social network called dodgeball. Soon its founders Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert left G. And today G buys next mobile social network - Zingku, that integrates txt messaging, IM, email. As we see G buys mobile technologies. Even not buys, but collects them, as a smart collector does.

Guidelines for Mobile Webdesign

• CSS-based layout
• Proportional measures (em, %)
• XHTML or XML coding standards
• Character encoding in UTF-8
• Design for different mobile screen sizes: 120px to 640px x 480x
• Logical structure
• Select values from a list of choices
• Images: jpeg or gif
• Always provide a [back] link
• Keep maximum page size under 20 kb
• Music: CD-quality
• Video: 3-to-20-minute time frame
• Buy .Mobi Domain
• Check your mobile site: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
• Submit your .mobi web site.

Use .mobi standards.

Build your mobile website by yourself or mobilize it with Mdog / Zinadoo / Feed2Mobile / Mowser / Wapple.

Read full intro of Mobile Design Practice and mobile phones design resources.

Mobile Linux

As a SEO Freelancer I watch competition in mobile operating systems arena, and realize that sooner or later we will optimize resources within and for mobile social networkings battle.

Lets look at recent mobile platforms: apart Symbian OS, MS Windows Mobile family, there are Linux based mobile platforms:

• Maemo (Nokia, based on Debian Linux)
• Open Moko (Neo1973 phone)
• OpenZX (Motorola EZX)
• MOTOMAGX (Motorola)
• LiMo (Vodafone, NTT Docomo, Motorola, Samsung, Panasonic, Nec)
• ACCESS Linux Platform

Mobile Linux will become the dominant OS of mobile phones within next years. The personal mobile server is a top-notch weapon of personal publicity, and we have to look closer to understand where mobile SEO could go.

'I see the mobile Linux wave out in the ocean and am sounding the alarm - the mobile Linux tide is rising. Be prepared', - J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D., VP & Chief Analyst for Mobile & Wireless at Frost & Sullivan.

June: 12.3 mln of mobile social networkers

M:Metrics announced at first time its measurement of mobile social networkings: 12.3 million consumers in the U.S. and W.Europe reported accessing a social networking site with their mobile devices in June.

The American audience for mobile social networking sites was the largest - 7.5 million mobile subscribers. Italy follows, with 1.3 million, then the UK with 1.1 million, Spain with 751,000, Germany and France.

Interesting the fact MySpace and Facebook are the top two social networking sites accessed via mobiles in U.S. and UK. MySpace attracts 3.7 million U.S. and 440,000 UK mobile users, but Facebook's mobile audience is about 2 million.

'Nearly every online social networking site has added the ability to connect to these communities with a mobile phone, allowing people to access profiles and share content while they're on the go. With the mobile phone playing a central role in people's social lives, it's only natural that social networking sites are working to bridge the gap between the online and mobile worlds,' - Mark Donovan, analyst of M:Metrics.