Andy Moore

From http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-bpwg/ mailing list:

The W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a
second Last Call Working Draft of its mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0
document:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-mobileOK-basic10-tests-20070525/

And those duplicate content issues….

I was taking a lazy Sunday stroll around the Mobile Web looking for a little design inspiration, Google Mobile is always a good starting point so I searched for ‘ringtones’ and opted for the mobile web results, WOW, we’re first!

I’ve had a few emails recently regarding Mobile SEO and potential duplicate content issues and this confirmation from the results indicates my theories can’t be too wrong.

Every download available on our WAP site has a page on the full web site too, our web and WAP sites are separate entities, the WAP site has it’s own Google site map and multi-renders the markup used thanks to the awesome WALL4PHP.

If a duplicate content filter was in use between the regular desktop and mobile internet we’d not be listed as well as we are on either side of the results.

These are the Google results from the UK and the WAP results above are from the mobile web search so there are limiting factors here but nothing that looks or feels like a duplicate content filter.

I wanted to publish this to part share my excitement and to let other site owners know that if you’re holding back on going mobile because of SEO fears you can relax and start planning your killer mobi site instead!

Just remember to get a mobile site map, this way you’re telling the engines which version is which so they’ll understand you’re not cloaking or duplicating content in a dark way.

I’ve been going on about PayForIt for some time now and we went live today.

Here’s a demo for you to check on a mobile phone:

http://andymoore.mobi/tmpf.wml

The price point is set at £1.50 and live billing will occur on Orange, T-Mobile and Virgin. Still waiting for O2, Three and Vodafone to go give the green light on this.

I thought I’d open it up to any mogeeks and mobilists who visit my site so they can have a play with it.

Is this the future of mobile payments in the UK?

At what point does the load on your server make you tremble?

One of my realtime monitors glows red and blinks when average load exceeds 5. You can image how I felt a few weeks back when Apache went mental and load hit 193:

That was a stressful few hours but the uptime shown says I’d had it pretty easy for 331 days.