SEOize your iPhone
Barry Schwartz posted about how to add a desktop icon to your iphone bookmarks that is now available with the latest iPhone update. I thought it would be pretty cool to have a page with a bunch of my favorite blogs in our industry. I am not sure what percentage of folks in our industry are running an iPhone (I’ve heard how Danny feels), so I went ahead and created icons for a dozen or so sites.
Here is a shot of my Search Blogs iPhone page.
Hopefully nobody takes offense to me grabbing their logos (or in the case of Eli just doing a quick Google Images Search). Instead I did it in hopes that this will motivate folks to starting making their own desktop logos. So if you have an issue, please let me know.
I could not figure out an easy way to do this off the top of my head, so I just created a directory/page for each site with a link over to their blog/site. Now that I have it saved in my iPhone I think I can set up redirects, but I am not sure if there is an easy way for others to save the bookmark on their iPhone. Any know a better way to do this from a 3rd party standpoint?
- Jim
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Cool stuff
I’ll put it on my iPod Touch, until someone sends me an iPhone 
Comment by Joost de Valk — January 26, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
I’m surprised at how many sites haven’t added iPhone icon code on their site for bookmarked favicons.
Comment by Utah SEO Pro — January 27, 2008 @ 1:49 am
I am suprised too. LinkedIn does not have one and neither does Yahoo or eBay. Seems like just a matter of time though. Facebook, CNN, Fox News, and Amazon all do.
Comment by Jim Matheson — January 27, 2008 @ 10:48 am
I also discovered that the icons do not automatically update. Google Reader has a new one, but I already had a shortcut on my desktop from previously which did not update. I had to bookmark it again for it to pull the new logo.
Comment by Jim Matheson — January 27, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
I agree Jim, I find it incredible that LinkedIn and eBay done have an icon for the iphone, I would have thought they would have been at the forefront of this. Are there any stats where we can actually see how many users actually (1) look on their mobile for content (2) order items on their mobile.
Comment by London Sightseeing Tours — July 25, 2008 @ 10:59 am
Ohh, Jim has a good idea, if we can see how many people buy or look for content on their mobile phone, companies will start advertising or looking into phones more. Really cool concept with a nice business touch. I hope someone can come up with it so I can use it on my Iphone and test to see how well it works!
Comment by Iphone Guides — September 2, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
Jim has a great idea, it would be great to see how many users and doing what on their phone.
Comment by Cottages in Devon — February 3, 2009 @ 6:44 am
I figured it was only a matter of time before SEO geared specifically toward mobile phone usage would start popping up.
Comment by celebrity justice — February 26, 2009 @ 9:01 am
The icons look great, thank you for sharing the link to how to add the icon to the iphone bookmarks.
Comment by Mark — April 13, 2009 @ 3:12 pm