Whites Spaces Super WiFi Expands Search Marketing Reach

A decision by the FCC on Thursday September 23rd could affect search marketing far beyond interface changes such as Google Instant. The FCC is to finalize provisions for unlicensed wireless devices to operate in unused parts of the TV spectrum - aka White Spaces - for advanced Wi-Fi technologies and broadband. This White Spaces spectrum formerly used by analog TV signals could provide broadband access from a single router for long distances of up to 50...

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Search Conferences Getting Mobilized

Mobile in recent years has been a sort of side panel at search marketing conferences but here in mid 2010 I feel for the first time it has been truly welcomed as a full fledged participant. I just completed a short week of bi-coastal search conferences, Affiliate Summit East in New York City & SES in San Francisco, speaking on mobile...

Why Internet Marketers Should Support Android

Mobile is becoming more & more a part of an Internet Marketers life as Android is at the heart of that acceleration. Symbian dominates mobile devices worldwide while Blackberry leads here in North America, albeit both are losing share at an accelerated place, perhaps in part because those devices provide relatively poor to no web browsing. Although much better, browsing & search itself on the iPhone has always been secondary to its apps as Steve Jobs...

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Google I/O & SMX Advanced Lessons – Android & Don’t Beat Matt Cutts at Pool

Over the past month there have been 3 major conferences in the new search world: Google I/O, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, & SMX Advanced. I attended the first and last but there must have been some cross-up with my invitation to the Apple WWDC. :) Google I/O was a defacto Android conference where I noticed a lot of frustrated former iPhone developers that were the ones most vocal during the Apple jabs at the conference....

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How MicroFormatting Will Improve Mobile Search

Last month I went over the basics of how to future plan & setup a mobile version of your site correctly both for the user and the search engines. This month I will go over coding that will play a critical role for mobile in the future as well - microformatting. Microformatting - includes Microformat, RDFa, & Microdata - allows you to explicitly delineate the property type of the text you...

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Mobile SEO Future Planning

2010 is the next year that has been talked about year after year as far as mobile online use truly taking off. The iPhone was indeed revolutionary and provided the true smartphone leap forward, that has been followed and in many ways being surpassed by Android, with more and more mainstream users browsing online via mobile devices. How does this impact & affect the SEO that you have already carefully crafted for your sites?  Not...

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The Droid Outsold the iPhone

The Droid from Verizon has actually outsold the original iPhone in their respective first 74 days of launching. The iPhone sold its first million units at the 74 day point and according to Flurry in that same time span, the Droid (aka Motorola Sholes), sold just over a million by 50,000 units. This is a comparison of just one Android phone to the one iPhone model a year, nevermind combining the

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Mobile Laws Coming Through the Mobile World Congress

The Mobile World Congress has convened in Barcelona Spain and it looks like some of the news coming out could signal some upcoming laws for Internet Marketers. If this year's MWC could be summed up it may be something like "Looking through Windows to an army of Androids". The two main takeaways was first an impressive early demo of Windows Phone 7 which oddly just dropped the Windows Mobile branding...

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Google Caffeine for Mobile

As the Internet world continues to wait for Google to fully push online its next generation infrastructure called Caffeine, its best to understand why its doing so and then how best to prepare for it. Over 5 months ago Google stated its purpose with Caffeine is to "push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions" and then Matt Cutts made official at PubCon back in November 2009...

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How to Plugin SEO to WordPress : 9 Great Plugins

I am an avid reader of Search Engine Journal due in large part that it has actual SEO meat with real takeaways especially the posts by Ann Smarty. In the Internet Marketing field we often see articles created just for the sake of content and just as with some presentations at conferences, they just bloviate about the same general information we already know. So as to not...

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