Making Websites Mobile Friendly

Making website more mobile friendly – Google article on how to make your website more friendly for those people browsing using a mobile phone. This article from Google looks at both SmartPhones and traditional mobile phones (using WAP, etc.). It then talks about how Googlebot-Mobile trawls your website and the user-agent strings that help it ascertain the information required for mobile phones. The format used being:

[Phone name(s)] (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1;
+http://www.google.com/bot.html)

The article then goes on to talk about:

*/ Websites with only Desktop Experience Content

*/ Websites with Dedicated Mobile Content

Base site: http://www.googlekeywordtool.com/

• http://www.google.com/sktool
• https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk
• 
• http://www.squidoo.com/

Most important keyword google tools:

• ** http://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
• ** http://www.google.com/sktool/#
• Training: http://services.google.com/awp/en_us/breeze/378766/index.html

Web tools

• http://www.google.com/webmasters/
• guidelines: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

Submit site:

• http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
• GoogleBot: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=80553
• http://www.google.com/local/add/lookup?welcome=false&hl=en-US&gl=US
• http://listings.local.yahoo.com/basic.php;_ylt=AsZa9KE18cSK4.lfx8q_tPQnYoZ4

Analytics:

• http://www.google.com/analytics/index.html

Adwords:

• https://adwords.google.com/select/Login

LearningCentre:

• http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?page=learningcenter.cs#section5

Adsense:

• https://www.google.com/adsense/login/en_US/?gsessionid=u_GtQvZ99Dg

GoogleSiteMaps:

• http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

Trends:

• http://www.google.com/trends
• HotTrends: http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
• http://www.google.com/insights/search/#

YouTube Google Channel:

• http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleBusiness

SEO:
Official SEO starter guide for google:

• http://www.googlekeywordtool.com/reports/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

SEO Factors:

• http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors

• Amazon affiliates: https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk/
• Google adsense: https://www.google.com/adsense
• Google adwords: https://adwords.google.com/select/snapshot
• Keyword tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
• Search keyword tool: http://adwords.google.com/sktool
• Trends: http://www.google.com/trends
• Google reader: http://www.google.co.uk/reader
• Google Keyword ToolBox: http://www.googlekeywordtool.com/
• Google WebMasters Tools: http://www.google.com/webmasters/
• Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/index.html
• Google ‘hot’ trends: http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
• YouTube Google Business Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleBusiness
• Official SEO starter guide for google: http://www.googlekeywordtool.com/reports/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
• SEO Factors: http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors