Any SEO thoughts for our new Mobile Phone Site for selling shoes!

[omnivore]

ok Folks

i humbly submit our new mobile site to see if any of you vastly more experienced dudes might give us the benefit of giving it a quick once over!

so here is the basic site
at
www.pretty-small-shoes.mobi (http://www.pretty-small-shoes.mobi/)

you can type this url into your mobile phone browser and get to it that way

it is a mobile companion site for our main one at www.pretty-small-shoes.com (http://www.pretty-small-shoes.com/)


you can see it on a normal pc
and on a mobile and it is configured to work on any mobile phone type

(on a pc it will look a little spare and over simple obviously)

the mobile site has some special gizmos working in the background that mean it can detect what kind of phone you have and render the site and photo images in a form optimised for that particular phone

(on i-phones that function is slightly tempremental at the moment)


we will use it to highlite new styles (and offers) as they go live and promote it via text message broadcasts from our own database and via twitter too.

each shoe featured will have a link below it that invites the user to `click to call` so they can go right from looking at shoes on their mobile to calling us to chat about them and then hopefully order them on the phone

we''ll be testing this in the proverbial `next few days`

meantime if anyone has any thoughts or comments or advice or feeback of any kind (seo/usability/etc) we'd be ever so grateful to hear it

cheers folks

T

[Ali-v-8]

Well done.
I have been on about this to some of my clients.
Also currently working on a mobile search engine that only looks for moble sites.
And yes google is doing the same.


ok Folks

i humbly submit our new mobile site to see if any of you vastly more experienced dudes might give us the benefit of giving it a quick once over!

so here is the basic site
at
www.pretty-small-shoes.mobi (http://www.pretty-small-shoes.mobi/)

you can type this url into your mobile phone browser and get to it that way

it is a mobile companion site for our main one at www.pretty-small-shoes.com (http://www.pretty-small-shoes.com/)


you can see it on a normal pc
and on a mobile and it is configured to work on any mobile phone type

(on a pc it will look a little spare and over simple obviously)

the mobile site has some special gizmos working in the background that mean it can detect what kind of phone you have and render the site and photo images in a form optimised for that particular phone

(on i-phones that function is slightly tempremental at the moment)


we will use it to highlite new styles (and offers) as they go live and promote it via text message broadcasts from our own database and via twitter too.

each shoe featured will have a link below it that invites the user to `click to call` so they can go right from looking at shoes on their mobile to calling us to chat about them and then hopefully order them on the phone

we''ll be testing this in the proverbial `next few days`

meantime if anyone has any thoughts or comments or advice or feeback of any kind (seo/usability/etc) we'd be ever so grateful to hear it

cheers folks

T

[omnivore]

Well done.
I have been on about this to some of my clients.
Also currently working on a mobile search engine that only looks for moble sites.
And yes google is doing the same.

cheers Mr Ali
thanks for that
good luck with the mobile search engine
the google version is rubbish

soooooooooo?

any thoughts on the site / how best to SEO it for Mobile search?

[Ali-v-8]

its basic stuff just like normal search.
but load time is big factor.
i have read some where that certain servers are not well recieved but i cant see how that would work


cheers Mr Ali
thanks for that
good luck with the mobile search engine
the google version is rubbish

soooooooooo?

any thoughts on the site / how best to SEO it for Mobile search?

[omnivore]

its basic stuff just like normal search.
but load time is big factor.
i have read some where that certain servers are not well recieved but i cant see how that would work

hmmm
not sure i have any idea what that means
you mean your search engine or our mobile site?

[BaywebLtd]

Although some may argue its not relevant its still good practice in terms of SEO to have meta tags. Depending on what keyword phrase your aiming to have people use when searching for your site would be the deciding factor on content for SEO. Ensuring you have some good quality backlinks would also be beneficial.

In terms of accessibility and cross browser compatibility you should try to meet W3C standards which currently the site doesnt (16 errors and 88 warnings).

Thats a few pointers to get you started, hope it was helpful.

Bayweb Ltd

[papverpoppies]

Sorry, I know this is not what the thread is about..

But, the shoes are to die for - they are so sexy.

Just had to let you know.

Good Luck

Poppy

[UKSBD]

any thoughts on the site / how best to SEO it for Mobile search?


Tell google there is an alternate version for handheld devices.

[omnivore]

Although some may argue its not relevant its still good practice in terms of SEO to have meta tags. Depending on what keyword phrase your aiming to have people use when searching for your site would be the deciding factor on content for SEO. Ensuring you have some good quality backlinks would also be beneficial.

In terms of accessibility and cross browser compatibility you should try to meet W3C standards which currently the site doesnt (16 errors and 88 warnings).

Thats a few pointers to get you started, hope it was helpful.

Bayweb Ltd

hi there
many thanks for that

the site does have the function to add meta tags in the content managment system

as to the erros we'll chat to our mobile site building guru and check that out

obviously we'll be working on getting back links to the site but havent started yet as we only have the first prototype live

cheers again

T

[omnivore]

Sorry, I know this is not what the thread is about..

But, the shoes are to die for - they are so sexy.

Just had to let you know.

Good Luck

Poppy

hey hhey
many thanks for that poppy

as all our shoes are hand made we can in fact supply any size (but we don't promote that)
so if your really interested........................................ ........

[omnivore]

Tell google there is an alternate version for handheld devices.


hi there

do you mean tell google through webmaster tools that we have an alternate version of our site?

will do,

good tip thanks
T