The Mobile Web browser is totally new.

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Meta.txt Improving Mobile SEO

Meta.txt – A Standard for Improving Mobile Web Browsing and Discovery of Media

Executive Summary

Recently there has been a surge in articles detailing just how brands and mobile websites can become more visible on the Mobile Internet. From rules, to 10 point plans, to pages of best practices – the PC web is awash with advice. Many attempts have been made to simplify mobile website discoverability, however so far the responsibility has been on the webmaster to create a site that fits an ever increasing list of criteria – remember the user is in a rush; the screen on a mobile is a lot smaller than that of a PC; join a mobile site directory. No one has put much focus on a possible technology solution. Until now.

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Matt Cutts on the future of search: “Mobile will be big”

In the latest GWC video on YouTube, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of Webspam team, is answering a question about the future of search in the next few years.

According to him, search as we know it today is nowhere near done.

He explains that Google’s main ambition is to index more kind of contents, such as books, online calendars, and everything “in the cloud”.

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Mobile SEO Myths Exposed

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Web meets phone Nexus one

Power and battery

Removable 1400 mAH battery

Charges at 480mA from USB, at 980mA from supplied charger

Talk time

Up to 10 hours on 2G
Up to 7 hours on 3G

Standby time

Up to 290 hours on 2G Up to 250 hours on 3G

Internet use

Up to 5 hours on 3G
Up to 6.5 hours on Wi-Fi

Video playback

Up to 7 hours

Audio playback

Up to 20 hours

Processor

Qualcomm QSD 8250 1 GHz

Operating system

Android Mobile Technology Platform 2.1 (Eclair)

Capacity

512MB Flash

512MB RAM

4GB Micro SD Card (Expandable to 32 GB)

Location

Assisted global positioning system (AGPS) receiver

Cell tower and Wi-Fi positioning

Digital compass

Accelerometer

Size and weight

Height

119mm

Width

59.8mm

Depth

11.5mm

Weight

130 grams w/battery
100g w/o battery

Display

3.7-inch (diagonal) widescreen WVGA AMOLED touchscreen

800 x 480 pixels

100,000:1 typical contrast ratio

1ms typical response rate

Camera & Flash

5 megapixels

Autofocus from 6cm to infinity

2X digital zoom

LED flash

User can include location of photos from phone’s AGPS receiver

Video captured at 720×480 pixels at 20 frames per second or higher, depending on lighting conditions

Cellular & Wireless

UMTS Band 1/4/8 (2100/AWS/900)

HSDPA 7.2Mbps

HSUPA 2Mbps

GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)

Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

A2DP stereo Bluetooth

Buttons, connectors and controls

Front / Top

[1] Power

[2] 3.5mm stereo headphone jack

[3] Charging and notification indicator

[4] Illuminated capacitive soft keys:
Back, Home, Menu, and Search

[5] Tri-color clickable trackball

Back / Bottom

[6] Camera

[7] Camera flash

[8] Speaker

[9] Dock pin connectors

[10] Micro USB port

[11] Microphone

Left side

[12] Volume Control

Additional features

• Haptic feedback
• Teflon™ coated back
• Second microphone for active noise cancellation
• SIM card slot
• Micro SD slot
• Proximity sensor
• Light sensor

Graphics, video and audio

Audio decoders

AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1 (AAC+), HE-AACv2 (enhanced AAC+) Mono/Stereo standard bit rates up to 160 kbps and sampling rates from 8 to 48kHz, AMR-NB 4.75 to 12.2 kbps sampled @ 8kHz, AMR-WB 9 rates from 6.60 kbit/s to 23.85 kbit/s sampled @ 16kHz., MP3 Mono/Stereo 8-320Kbps constant (CBR) or variable bit-rate (VBR), MIDI SMF (Type 0 and 1), DLS Version 1 and 2, XMF/Mobile XMF, RTTTL/RTX, OTA, iMelody, Ogg Vorbis, WAVE (8-bit and 16-bit PCM)

Image

JPEG (encode and decode), GIF, PNG, BMP

Video

H.263 (encode and decode) MPEG-4 SP (encode and decode) H.264 AVC (decode)

Audio encoders

AMR-NB 4.75 to 12.2 kbps sampled @ 8kHz

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MOBILE SEO: TO BE OR NOT TO BE

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iPhone 3GS vs Palm Pre vs Motorola Droid vs Nexus One

Came across this nice comparison chart for iPhone, Palm, Droid and Nexus.

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Mobile SEO Best Practices

Today, the mobile web is at the same stage in its evolution. It’s a mystical time again: nobody’s too sure what the killer apps are going to be and which online businesses models are going to win (aside from gambling and porn)… but, based on the lessons we learned the first time around, one thing’s for certain: search and searchengine optimization (SEO) is going to be critical to establishing the mobile web. Read full story

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Use Google Analytics for Mobile Tracking

Google Analytics can track traffic to your mobile website from all web-enabled devices, whether or not the device runs JavaScript. This is made possible by adding a server side code snippet to your mobile website. Read full story

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Google’s Nexus One Officially Announced With Android 2.1 Preloaded Inside

Google has finally launched the most anticipated Nexus One, and if you happen to live in one of the following 4 countries – the US, UK, Singapore or Hong Kong – you can get it right away from Google’s website, priced at $529.99 without a contract or merely $179 including a T-Mobile two year plan (in the US). Other people will have to wait at least until Spring 2010, when it believes that Google will be adding more countries to its smartphone lineup.

The phone itself is an HTC brand, coming with a 3.7-inch 800×480 AMOLED display, which regretfully doesn’t support multi-touch at the moment, although Google says it’s not an hardware issue but a software tweak and it’d consider adding screen gestures capabilities in the future.

Besides that, you get a fast 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor,paired with a 5 megapixels camera including an integrated LED flash that can shoot MPEG-4 video and have it uploaded directly to Youtube.

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