SEO - Mobile Website Design

Did you know that, there are more than 2 billion mobile phone users, and a thousand more are added every minute! Mobile phone owners (more than 700 million and growing) have browsed the Internet through their mobile phones. This is the reason why Mobile Web browsing is predicted to become 3rd Generation Internet platform.

A few years back mobile web design was very difficult because a web designer had to strictly meet the standards set out by the W3C to be viewed on a mobile WAP handset. Today that's not the case. Most mobiles such as the iphone, nokia pda can view all websites allowing use of server-side-scripts like PHP and ASP they also allow styling scripts like CSS which was previously stripped out of older WAP browsers.

Before your site can correctly work on a wireless device, it must first adhere strictly to website accessibility guidelines set by the W3C.

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Important Factor of SEO Mobile Website Design

Mobile Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is not that different from the regular SEO. The most important aspect of a mobile SEO campaign is making sure that your customers can view your website correctly and accurately using their wireless handheld device.

• Websites which make use of tables for the main layout will not look right on mobile phones.

• Your site must use CSS for the layout to ensure maximum compatibility.

• It is easiest if your site is coded using either XML or XHTML, with your character encoding set at UTF-8.

• You have to consider that different mobile phones have different screen sizes. This can be a major headache if you want your mobile Web site design to run on all of them.

Remember to put all the most important information that you want mobile users to see on the top of the page. It can be time consuming to browse through a mobile site, not to mention tedious to read through. Make your mobile site design convenient for your consumers.

It is difficult to enter text in mobile Websites. You may want to offer your user the convenience of radio buttons and lists, which they can choose from depending on what they need.

• If you wish to put images on your mobile Website, it should be in jpeg or gif format.

• A good mobile Web site design provides back buttons and links. Many phones are not equipped with back buttons, so try to provide one.

• Keep in mind that the maximum page size for a mobile page is only 20 kilobytes. Make everything fit into that number.

Lastly, you should bear in mind that users are actually paying fees to access your mobile Website. Make sure that they are getting their money's worth!

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