If anyone missed this, I gave my thoughts recently on Nokia’s acquisition of Motally. Good for advertisers, I think: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=134179

The subject is mobile web sites versus mobile apps. The description from the agenda: 11:00am: Apps vs. WAP: Choosing the Right Mobile Platform for Your Brand: You’re determined to get your brand into the pockets of millions of consumers, and the best way to do it is with a flashy new app, right? Maybe not. [...]

Just a quick footnote to my recent Search Engine Land post on not expecting mobile web transcoding services to be automatically optimized for search– I was digging around some other popular m-commerce solutions and found that some other vendors have similar issues when it comes to creating mobile content that can’t be found in search [...]

I wrote an article for Search Engine Land this week on some of the problems that Usablenet has from an SEO standpoint. If you haven’t seen it yet, please check it out and let me know what you think: http://searchengineland.com/mobile-seo-tip-transcoding-services-can-dilute-link-popularity-48068 The moral of the story is don’t expect your mobile content vendor to include optimization [...]

I may be one of the Amazon Kindle‘s biggest fans.  Since I got mine as a father’s day gift I’ve been reading more than I have since college, and I recommend it to anyone who is in the market for an e-reader. You may have heard that Amazon released a new mass market Kindle with [...]

Quoted today in MediaPost on the implications of Google’s App Inventor: Why Google Wants To Turn Average Joes Into Apps Developers Two caveats to my comments: I’m skeptical that sheer number of apps is a good indicator of platform content quality, as many of these apps are going to be low quality, and the App [...]

Most readers of this blog know that I work for Resolution Media– a digital marketing agency in Chicago. RM is really doing some interesting things in the digital space, and they’re hosting an event on July 22 to share information on digital strategy. It’s a great opportunity to talk about your digital marketing efforts with [...]

New post on the FindResolution blog about social search, and why I think social search alone will not be a threat to Google’s dominance: FindResolution: Don’t Bet the Farm(ville) on Social Search http://www.findresolution.com/2010/06/dont-bet-farmville-on-social-search.html What do you think? Will Facebook be a viable contender to Google’s search throne?

Do you optimize your mobile site for mobile queries? Or is it a mobile-formatted version of your desktop content? In my new Search Engine Land article, “Why Mobile Searchers Need Mobile-Optimized Sites,” I discuss the advantages (16 of them, to be exact) of optimizing mobile content for mobile searchers, rather than only redirecting mobile searchers [...]

For those of you who haven’t seen it, there’s a new article on Search Engine Land here: http://searchengineland.com/dont-penalize-yourself-mobile-sites-are-not-duplicate-content-40380 If you’re a long time subscriber you know that I’ve expressed the opinion that mobile sites are not duplicate content before. Because the idea has persisted in spite of the evidence to the contrary, I’ve presented some [...]

Being an optimizer, I’m always on the lookout for data that will help me understand what the people who come to my site want. Though many people think of this as a mobile blog, most of my visitors come from image searches for flying car, or looking for niche keywords like video searches from YouTube. [...]

SEO education is important to me, particularly when it comes to outlining the mobile SEO process, so when a book is released that includes Mobile SEO, I want to tell others about it. If I’m a technical editor on the book and it’s written by a friend and mentor of mine, it makes me want [...]

Not one to keep good news to myself, I thought I would share some of the positions we’re looking for at RM. If you’re looking for a job or know someone who is (and who doesn’t in this economy), this may be your lucky day! For those of you who don’t know much about Resolution [...]

Had a great time at SMX West last year and am happy to report that I will be speaking there again this year. This time I’ll be talking about Mobile search apps and their effect on SEO and SEM. Great topic among many and I’m happy to be a part of it. If you’re kicking [...]

The Golden Globes are tonight, but geeks like me are more interested in the SEMMYs. Thanks to the judges for nominating a post of mine again this year: http://www.semmys.org/2010/analytics-all-2010-nominees/ Big changes coming for this blog in 2010.  Stay tuned for more details.