Google Mobile Bot Now Indexing Smart Phone Content - Im Confused!

Google just announced that Google Mobile Bot will start crawling and indexing smartphone content.

With the number of smartphone users rapidly rising, we’re seeing more and more websites providing content specifically designed to be browsed on smartphones. Today we are happy to announce that Googlebot-Mobile now crawls with a smartphone user-agent in addition to its previous feature phone user-agents. This is to increase our coverage of smartphone content and to provide a better search experience for smartphone users.

From an SEO perspective I am confused.

Before you would block your smartphone website because you did not want to create duplicate content. Does this change now?

My Questions

• 1. Will smartphone pages be considered part of the index?
• 2. Will I need to start building links to my smartphone content so I can get it to rank?
• 3. Will there be some sort of authority transfer of site that are ranking that gets pushed to smartphone url?

So many question and once again Google ignores to explain the impact of SEO. Damn you Google.

I will update this post as soon as I figure this crap out.

Bing’s Travel Alert Fare Prediction Tool Sucks

I was planning a trip to head up to Seattle for the 4th of July holiday and decided to put Bing’s Travel alert fare prediction tool to work. I let a few days go by and did not see any significant fare rate drops, so I decided to do some looking around on my own. I ended up buying tickets directly from the airlines website for less than my set price of $385.

I continued to keep the alerts going to see if eventually I would get a better deal. Looks like I made the right decision. I guess to the tool’s features were too good to be true.

How You Know You Are A Nerd

Enough said: