Mobile SEO
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Hi there,
My website when searching via mobile is now showing the mobile version of the site in SERPs, well for quite sometime now to be honest, anyway the ranking in mobile are no different to what they are on desktop, is there actually anything I can do to influence my mobile SERPs? 9 times out of 10 it's desktop websites that are ranking about me in mobile search.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Found this article: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/beginners-guide-to-mobile-seo-11793 maybe it will help...
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Hi Donnie,
No, not Google places, just normal SERPs
I have heard about optimizing for mobile search, but not actual seeing a case study on best practice.
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If you talking about the results in google places you can build citations (yelp,yellow pages,city search, chamber of commerce, etc...). All you need to do is make sure that your address, phone number (url if available) are listed exactly as they are listed on your google places.
From my understanding there is no difference between searching from a PC or mobile as of yet.
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