Category Archives: Mobile

Guide to Google’s New Tablet Search

Recently in Seattle at Mozcon, Rand showed a slide during his presentation of a new Google search screen that he had recently seen “on a blog”. That evening I was using my iPad instead of my laptop and saw the more >

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Integrating the Social Community in Offline Media

Imagine my surprise as I was sitting in the Philly airport, reading a copy of Lucky Magazine, that I should come across something I love. It’s an advertisement from Bing. Yes, I said love. It’s a blatant advertisement, and it’s more >

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Launching Linkbait is like organising a party

Know what today is? iiiiitttt’s…. Analogy Friday! Tomorrow night, the Distilled crew is coming to my house for a party. It’s called Boardgames and Beverages. Rocking. While I stayed up all last night decorating personalised menus and filing the party more >

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Mobile news round-up (don’t want to call it weekly yet!)

Given my over-arching interest in all things mobile (and especially mobile SEO), I subscribe to a fair few feeds giving me mobile and mobile SEO news and opinion. I am always keen to learn of good ones I don’t know more >

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Does ‘mobile internet’ mean ‘internet on the handset’?

In the course of some of the work we have been doing recently, we have been thinking about the differences in mobile usage between the UK and the US. There are a lot of reasons why people use phones differently more >

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How to choose a URL for your mobile website

I’ve been writing a lot about mobile stuff recently – I think it’s just been on my mind a lot. With revelations like 50x more iPhone search volume than from any other handset, however, I think we might be hearing more >

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Mobile search: Why Google could be the next Google

Ciaran just wrote about how everyone is buying Yahoo! including Nokia, the mobile handset manufacturer (something Rebecca talked about as well). We have spent time here speculating about the exact same things. The combination of this train of thought and more >

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Google’s iPhone search not doing any geo-targeting?

While digging around a little bit into the various mobile versions of Google (and other large sites), I found their iPhone version. They also have a version at google.co.uk. Now, I don’t have an iPhone but I have changed my more >

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Why SEOs should care about the US spectrum auctions

At the end of last week, we heard the news that the initial bids in the FCC’s auction of 700MHz spectrum reached $2.4 billion. This auction is being run to reallocate spectrum previously used for analogue TV that has been more >

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Domaining, mobile tlds and automated whois queries

Domaining has been interesting me for a while. I think it mainly bugs me because I distinctly remember conversations from ~10 years ago about whether it was worth buying some generic .com domains that would be worth quite a packet more >

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