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.

World Cup Soccer Anthems App for The IPhone - It’s Perfect!

With World Cup right around the corner my friend over at Cofa Media just released a killer iPhone App!

Introducing “World Soccer Anthems“

Its pretty straight forward app that will come in handy while down at your local pub drinking a few pints. Right before the match starts you can now know what the hell the other countries Soccer Anthem means. “You will be able to read anthems of all the countries that participate in the 2010 World Soccer Championship in South Africa in their original format and translated in English language.”

Please download and spread the word!

In the future there will be no landlines!

Do you own a landline?

You know those phone lines that have a cord that is hooked into your wall at home. The ones that almost every household has.

Well I do not and think in 50 years the market for landlines will become very small.

Today SEL had a great post about Mobile User.

The survey confirmed an existing data point: that there are now more mobile phones than landlines. According to the findings, more than four out of five U.S. adults (85 percent) own a mobile phone vs. seven in ten (71 percent) who have a landline. That becomes a bigger gap among younger users (18-34), where 89 percent own a mobile phone and only 57 percent have a landline.

As the younger generation pick up cell phones they see no use for landlines. Why would some get up from what they are doing and get the phone when they could simply pull their cell phone put of their pocket?

Here is to the death of the landline!