Wingnut SEO

Yesterday thanks to our team doing the best it has ever done by more than $20k my boss decided to give us all an iPod Touch. (Sorry if my job perks are better than yours.)

I never thought I would have one of these, hell I didn’t even have an iPod shuffle, and until yesterday hadn’t realized how freaking cool these iToys are.

Anyway - after being giddy about my new toy - I started seeing how much devices like this could potentially change Mobile SEO. The days of needing different sites specifically for mobile looks, at first, like it is going out the door. The iPod touch, much to my delight has Wi-Fi and connects to the interwebs for search and other cool things.

So now you don’t need a special mobile device friendly web-page, right? Wrong. Sure you can see full size pages on these fancy new gadgets but for email and RSS feeds (and really everything else anyone would want to look for on a mobile device) it is still nice, hell maybe better, to have special pages to see everything in a format that doesn’t involve zooming in and out and other such time wasting nonsense. The entire point of being mobile is to get your information quickly and keep going! God bless America.

I suppose the point of all this is (other than bragging that I have a cool gadget) is that although entire web pages can be seen with ease on these absurdly priced hand-candies, it is not going to take the place of sites optimized for mobile devices. It is going to be a long time before everyone gets one of these fancy new iToys and these cavemen are still going to need pages made for their stone-age black berry pearls.