Mobile search is an evolving branch of information retrieval services centering around the convergence of mobile platforms, mobile handsets or other mobile devices. This is not just a spatial shift of the PC web-search, but witnessing a tree-like branching into specialized segments of mobile broadband and mobile content.

Best Practices On-site Mobile SEO

• WML is likely to be phased out soon, so use 100% valid XHTML 1.0 code. Mobile search engines may have trouble digesting invalid codes. So, play safe and better stick with the norms.
• Follow best practices for accessibility, ensuring that our content is easily accessible to mobile users as well as the mobile search engines. Web Accessibility Initiative is the right place to look for useful information, and Dive Into Accessibility is useful for tutorials.
• The traditional on-site SEO best practices have a universal appeal. Remember them, and follow the drill: major key-words in the title tag, H1’s and body text, key-word rich anchor text for internal links, and all the rest.

Roll on, and Get Indexed on the Mobile Search Engine

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Search engines must be made aware of our presence in order to index our pages and site. In order to enable them do just that, it would be wiser to submit our site to major mobile search engines for speedy indexing.

• Google Sitemaps (BETA)
• Yahoo! Submit your Mobile Site

Traditional SEO is a wise parent. It would therefore be a good idea to have at least one incoming link to every page that we have.

Major Mobile Search Engine Platforms

• Google XHTMLMobile Search from Google Mobile
• Yahoo! Mobile
• MSN Mobile Search
• AOL Mobile Search
• Nokia Mobile Search
• 4INFO Mobile Search
• Technocratic Mobile

Keep an eye on this, and watch the growth, It might just turn out to be that wild fire we all are waiting for.