Presentation given to Bango key partners about Mobile SEO and simple tactics that gave great results.

1. Mobile SEO
The importance of Rankings
Bango Key Customer Event
April 2009

2. Good Afternoon

3. Introducing Dave Carruthers
• MD of One Result leading UK SEO agency
• Involved in variety of industries including
Travel, Property, Dating, Adult and Gambling
• 6 years experience in generating high levels
of traffic through search engine optimisation

4. Tom Thurston
• Started in mobile in 2003 with Volantis.
• Loves building mobile internet sites and has
built hundreds of sites in the last few years.
• Currently devoting time to R&D for Mobile
SEO.

5. So Mobile SEO
1. Why Mobile SEO is essential
2.Simple things you can do with your site
3. How these simple things made a big difference
4.Future Research

6. Why Mobile SEO
• First realised that google was returning
rubbish results on mothers day 2009
• Lelli Kellys
– Girls Shoes
– Important to wife
– Look like this
– Used trusty XDA
– Googled “Lellie Kelly Shoes Christchurch”

7. The Lelli Kelly Results

8. GUY BLOGGING ABOUT
FEEDING
HIS BONZAI TORTOISE
SOME OTHER GUY
COMMENTS ABOUT
LELLI KELLY SHOES

9. Most Specific Google Search Ever
• “One Tommy Huddlestone Spurs Ringtone”
• Pam and Tommy strike again!

10. Another Specific Search…

11. Why is this happening?
• Many Mobile Sites often do not have even
basic SEO techniques applied
• Blogs typically are valid XHTML
• Blogs allow comments and links to be added
by anybody
• Because of no better alternatives Google will
continue to rank these pages

12. What can you do?

13. The SEO Basics
• All successful SEO strategies are linked to good
initial keyword research
• SEO broken in to 2 areas On and Off page
factors.
• On Page Factors Title Tags, Meta Information,
Page Content, Page Markup ...
• Off Page Factors age of domain, number of links,
quality of links...

14. Real Life Example: Spurs Mobile
• No rankings in the top 250 for “spurs ringtones” or
“spurs animations” on 3rd April 2009
• We implemented just a handful of On Page
optimisation techniques over a 1 week period
• Built a couple of links on our blogs with little trust once
the on page optimisation had been deployed
• Submitted a revised site map to Google

15. Spurs Mobile: On Page Optimisation

17. Spurs Mobile: Link Building

18. Spurs Mobile: Google Sitemap

19. The Result – Spurs Ringtone(s)

20. The Result – Spurs Animation(s)

21. One Tommy Huddlestone Spurs
Ringtone

22. The Future
• After the success of our initial research we are
currently developing the Scorch Controller
framework to include
– On Page Optimisation
– Search Engine Friendly URLS
– Google Mobile Sitemap Generation

23. Old Url : mobislim.com?p=zx2

24. Old Url: mobislim.com?p=z2_a2

25. Conclusion
• Mobile SEO is essential to achieve rankings
• There is a big opportunity to act now
• Customers don’t want to find Pam & Tommy
or the Tortoise, they want your product
• DO THE BASICS
• For more information monitor the One Result
Blog and TheMobileDeveloper.com

26. Thank you for your time!