1.5 billion mobile handsets sold in 2011, nearly one third are smartphones. Nokia is still top dog for handsets, but Samsung and Apple sold more smartphones.
Submitted by Nadir (not verified) on 3 December, 2008 - 11:32.
Hi Amy, thanks for your reply. I've been doing SEO for almost 4 years now, and it's the first time I hear such a statement ("Search engines start their crawls with the Internet Zone Files").
Search engines are using links to find new websites and build their index, not registrars' databases. I think you're wrong when associating TLDs or URLs with crawling and indexing. Your mobile site will be indexed regardless of your URL format or TLD, GoogleBot Mobile will decide if your site is mobile based on your page size, your doctype, etc, but not your URL. And they're right to do that, because a .mobi site is not more or less relevant than site.com or site.com/m or m.site.com or whatever. What matters is content and links.
I'm OK when dotMobi says that .mobi can help end-users find mobile sites more easily (though I would love to see how many people have actually tried to type directly anybrand.mobi to see if they had a mobile site). But you're wrong when saying that .mobi will help your Mobile SEO efforts because clearly it's not the case.
Hi Amy, thanks for your reply. I've been doing SEO for almost 4 years now, and it's the first time I hear such a statement ("Search engines start their crawls with the Internet Zone Files").
Search engines are using links to find new websites and build their index, not registrars' databases. I think you're wrong when associating TLDs or URLs with crawling and indexing. Your mobile site will be indexed regardless of your URL format or TLD, GoogleBot Mobile will decide if your site is mobile based on your page size, your doctype, etc, but not your URL. And they're right to do that, because a .mobi site is not more or less relevant than site.com or site.com/m or m.site.com or whatever. What matters is content and links.
I'm OK when dotMobi says that .mobi can help end-users find mobile sites more easily (though I would love to see how many people have actually tried to type directly anybrand.mobi to see if they had a mobile site). But you're wrong when saying that .mobi will help your Mobile SEO efforts because clearly it's not the case.