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Mobile seo for beginners

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Question:Bena. Your site Mobile SEO News came to the top of my Google search on SEO in Mobile and I wondered if you could help me?

We are a charity in Bayern and I know you are based in Seeheim-Jugenheim – is there a very low cost way to take my site to mobile?  Will you consider doing it for us for free?  Do I need a mobile site or just to mobile search my online site.

Bena’s Answer: Hi. Thanks for your email. As you can imagine I get a lot of emails requesting me to help them and I can’t help everyone for free.  But I took a look at your site and taking it mobile or getting it in search results will be very easy.

Before I answer, I want you to think what you want from a mobile site. Is it just to be mobile or do you want to get customers, do SMS services that can make your charity money?  I can only help when you know what you want. But I can suggest the following if you are nowhere on mobile at the moment.

You have 5 graphics on the page and not too much content.  The site is a very simple blog.  To get it onto mobile you can use a rendering engine like Skweezer (www.skweezer.com) and then redirect your online site to your mobile site or promote it via a mobile button (Mippin www.mippin.com will also do this for you)

But if you want to get instant benefits on mobile for SEO- follow these simple steps:

Create an XML feed (pointing to your content)

Dont worry about your pictures – mobile sites should be very clean and as a start just getting your content mobilised will help you.

Go to a free mobile site creation company – zinadoo www.zinadoo.com , wapple www.wapple.net , mofuse www.mofuse.com , winksite www.winksite.com and make a site with our your feed and then submit a sitemap (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps) to Google see here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34627

Just for you I have created a feed for you and a sitemap to submit to Google- see attached.

When you do this – I would start mobile search submission see here: http://www.mobileseonews.com/2008/12/mobile-search-e.html

OK, its not rocket science and its the very basics but I hope it helps any true beginners.