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John Arne Sæterås - Search on Mobile
1. Organic
Search on Mobile
John Arne Sæterås
Twitter: @jonarnes
Head of innovation at Mobiletech
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2. Depending on the source,
search from mobile devices will
surpass desktop search
between
2014 and 2016
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3. Nearly 50% Of Olympics-Related
Searches Came From Mobile Devices
http://googlemobileads.blogspot.no/2012/08/going-for-mobile-gold-10x-increase-in.html
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4. Almost 50% use search on mobile daily
(Desktop search is about 70%)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leehaywood/4287913840/sizes/l/in/photostream/
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5. How big is mobile
search today?
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7. 2nd, What is the volume?
Google serve ∼100 bill. searches per month
About 30% come from mobile devices
Depending on
source. Ranges
from 15 to 30
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8. 30 000 000 000
1 000 000 000 pr day
42 000 000 pr hr .
700 000 pr min
12 000 pr sec
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9. 3rd, What are we searching for?
Searched"for"restaurants/pubs"
Searched"for"jobs"
Searched"for"a"flat/house"
Sweden"
Norway"
Searched"for"travel/holidays"
Denmark"
General"search"
Product"search"
0" 10" 20" 30" 40" 50" 60" 70" 80"
http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/
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13. Consider new
key words due
to search
suggestions
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14. Consider this for mobile
• Sitemaps
• Avoid duplicate content
• Google Places
• Micro formats
• Page speed
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15. Sitemap
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/
sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/page-1/</loc>
Google support both <xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
a mobile site map, for media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)"
href="http://m.example.com/page-1" />
feature phones, and </url>
</urlset>
device agnostic site <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
map, for RWD sites. <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/
sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:mobile="http://www.google.com/schemas/
sitemap-mobile/1.0">
<url>
<loc>http://mobile.example.com/
Manage this in Google article100.html</loc>
Webmaster tools <mobile:mobile/>
</url>
</urlset>
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16. Avoiding duplicate content
<link rel="alternate"
media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)"
href="http://m.example.com/page-1" >
On Desktop page:
<link rel="alternate"
media="handheld"
href="http://m.example.com/page-1" >
On mobile page: <link rel="canonical"
href="http://www.example.com/page-1" >
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17. Register on Google Places
• >30% of mobile
searches have a
local intent
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18. Micro formats
<div
class="location
vcard">
• Mobile searches are
<span
class="fn
org">
Shakespeare's
Pub
more specific. Help
</span>
<div
class="adr">
Search engines read
<div
class="street-‐address">
314
East
6th
Street
your content.
</div>
<div
class="locality">
• Add more meta
Austin,
TX
78701
</div>
data
</div>
</div>
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19. Page speed
Mobile searches are focused and impatient
71% of mobile users expect page to load as
fast or faster than desktop sites Source: Compuware/Gomez
Speed is considered when ranking a
given site http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.no/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html
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20. It’s not mobile becoming
“desktop like”.
The web is becoming
mobile aware.
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