Following Mobile Search: the dotMobi Way - ready.mobi and dev.mobi
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www.ready.mobi and www.dev.mobi serve as web sites which dotMobi provides for developers. Ready.mobi serves as a diagnostic tool for pages and whole websites. It gives previews of what the site will look like for different devices. It does part-by-part analysis of all the problems, runs tests and gives a prognosis of things that need to be changed with the site.
I did a few test runs with my personal tech-blog and got a mark of one out of five (extremely bad). Feeling ill-tempered, I tested seochat.com, and the grade was equal to mine. That made me feel better, but then I started worrying about all the Nokia users not reading my extremely well-written articles (all due to my editor [he said it, I didn't, but who am I to disagree? --Ed.]). Ready.mobi is simply a must-use tool for any mobile developer, and hence for anybody aiming SEO at mobile users.
It should be noted that dotMobi bases the tests used at ready.mobi on several tests which are recommended by W3C to standardize pages for the mobile web. You should also note that one of the two editors of the recommendation paper is from dotMobi, while the other editor is Google. Google takes mobile search quite seriously, as can be noted by the fact that they have a separate engine for WAP and mobile-enabled sites. The amount of work dotMobi is putting into the mobile web, and the amount of co-operation they are getting from the device makers, is unprecedented.
Dev.mobi brings everything together on one web site: training, support, links to DeviceAtlas and ready.mobi, e-books -- the whole nine yards of training and resources when it comes to mobile web development. Also on this website are articles by various experts in mobile technologies and application. Sort of what dev is to developers, devmobi (it sounds alike now that I think about it) is to mobile web developers.
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