Tips for Link Building for Mobile Sites

[MarkChambers]

Hi,

I wondered if anyone had any tips and advice for link building for mobile sites.

Many thanks

[CatalystSEM]

Hi Mark,

what would the purpose of those links be? As far as I know, mobile results are not that different from desktop results, except for the local results when a users allows for geo-location in his/her devices. In the near future Google might roll our a new form of SERPs that's specifically foo mobiles users, but in the past, mobile results have not been influenced by inbound links.

The only recommendation at this time is that you get those links from mobile website directories and similar sources.

[MarkChambers]

Hi Catline,

Many thanks for your response.

I'm not quite sure what the purpose would be, with my limited knowledge of mobile SEO, I assumed that for the mobile site to rank well on mobile search results and outperform the desktop site on mobile I would need links to the site. Since posting and reading more I think my approach has changed, so I would rely on the rankings for the desktop site to be listed on mobile search results and then use a user-agent redirect to direct mobile users to the mobile site. If I understand correctly, I would use the canonical tag in the mobile page to point to the desktop version of the page. Then the desktop page should always outrank the mobile version...

Thanks