I’m officially practicing what I preach. The mobile version of this blog is here. Before the dotmobi folks get disappointed that the site is hosted at a subdomain, I should point out that the site is also accessible at BrysonMeunier.mobi. The mobile site is currently a manually coded version of the desktop site and only includes the last five posts. More information will be added at a later date. In the interim, however, it is now possible to access my thoughts on natural search and mobile SEO on the bus

It’s true that there’s currently very little cross-linking on the mobile Web. This is often cited by those who argue that linking is relatively unimportant in mobile SEO. However, it
seems to me just the opposite conclusion should be reached from the understanding of this fact: that a user would defy convention and link to a mobile site from a mobile site is a stronger signal of
quality than a link from a desktop web site. It’s clear from the mobile search engine results pages (SERPs) that desktop link popularity is a crucial ranking factor in mobile search as well.
For long-term success in mobile search, a webmaster should pay attention to the overall link popularity of the site, including links from mobile sites.

Most of my readers are marketers, and probably weren’t at WWW2008 on April 25 in order to see the presentation of the brilliant new study of mobile queries, Deciphering Mobile Search Patterns: A Study of Yahoo! Mobile Search Queries by Yi, Maghoul and Pedersen of Yahoo!. I wasn’t either, but since we now have access to a PDF of the report, we can see what we missed. Here’s a high level overview for those of you who, like me, aren’t computer scientists, but are still interested in how mobile users search.

If you’re in or around Manhattan, don’t forget to join us tomorrow night for the Mobile Monday NY panel discussion on Mobile
Analytics, Mobile Social Search and optimizing for the mobile user. All of the vendors from the Mobile SEO’s
Guide to Mobile Analytics will be there, along with representatives from Tig Tags, Taptu and ESPN Mobile. We’llbe discussing how Mobile SEO differs from traditional SEO in terms of indexing, ranking algorithms, tracking and optimization, so it should be of interest to all regular readers of this blog. I’ll be doing a recap later this week for the benefit of those who can’t be there, but for those who can, please RSVP here if you haven’t already.

Because the engines often favor aged content, and mobile SEO has just taken off in the past several years, the search engines aren’t always the first places to look when it comes to looking for good mobile SEO information. These are resources I recommend for consistently good information on mobile SEO. In order to be included here the resource must be a recognized expert in mobile search engine optimization or have a page or site devoted to making search engine-friendly mobile web sites that is regularly updated. I’ve also included some links to sites on mobile development and mobile analytics because of the synergy with mobile SEO. For a complete list of resources, for all things Natural Search and Mobile SEO, please see my del.icio.us bookmarks.For blogs that I follow, please see my Technorati profile. Finally, if you see a site that should be included on this list and is mobile SEO-related (i.e. not mobile advertising, general mobile search, general mobile marketing or mobile news), please list it in the nofollowed comments. If I agree, I’ll include it here permanently.