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.