Optimize for mobile search engines

I discovered a great little article summing up some data on mobile search and trends. Of course ‘short queries’ and ‘limited screen real estate’ are a given.

But I also noted these various recommendations:

• Write short, concise titles.

• Adhere to mobile standards

• Connect, or link to, legitimate and popular Web sites.

• Make sure you are not disallowing mobile crawlers from spidering your site.

• Submit your mobile site for inclusion And…

• Design for low-end phones

• Keep the URL structure as simple as possible

• Specify the doc type in the XML preamble

• Specify the character encoding

• Keep links descriptive Seems the broader web community is starting to pick up on the W3C and dotMobi zeitgeist…