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First, is your site optimized for mobile phone viewing? If not, download one of the Wordpress Mobile plugins. I’m using Andy Moore’s Wordpress Mobile (optimizes site for viewing, lets you give your site links preferred anchor text so people know exactly what that link will give them, pick preferred color scheme, lets your mobile Google Adsense & Admob ads show up, lets you show your Mobilise links, enables you to create “Mobile ONLY” posts and pages, & more) but there are a few others out there too.

Here’s a screenshot of the color layout choices:

These plugins make your Wordpress site optimized for mobile viewing…and they really need to be, it’s 2010 & we’re turning to mobiles & smart phones for more and more of our online browsing & searching. If your site doesn’t show up properly on mobiles, or is unorganized and “jacked up”, you could miss potential readers, clickers & buyers.

You can also submit your mobile optimized website to mobile social bookmarking sites like Mobilised.net.  Mobilised even makes it easy to submit links from your phone via Twitter (doubt I’ll be going through all this personally, but at least they’re giving options to those who are heavily relying on their mobiles for most everything these days). They also give you a badge that you can put on your site to allow others to vote for your site, just like a Digg.

Mobile social bookmarking isn’t huge yet, but it wouldn’t surprise me if we see it grow pretty soon. Am I bookmarking on them? Yup. Can’t hurt, I want mobile browsers to find my content & easily view it so I’m there. If it can improve visibility, count me in!

Some of our standard BMing sites are now offering mobile versions. Other MSB (mobile social bookmarking sites) include:

Mobiseer looks pretty promising.

Linkius, Mobleo, Pretty straight-foward mobile social bookmarking.

Phonefavs lets you go mobile w/existing bookmarks; also includes mobile directory & more. (Currently a paid service but I’m curious to see how long that lasts; they may have a hard time competing w/free services)

MDelicious makes your bookmarks easily viewable w/mobiles so be sure you’re bookmarking either via Del.icio.us or the mobile version.

There are a few more floating around out there, some seem to have transitioned or be in transition and some don’t seem to know what they want to do with themselves but I suspect someone will figure it out soon. Sites like Mobile.Tappity.com look a little confused and TapTap.net gave me a headache, but I suspect some others will get it right like Mobilised seems to have.

Bookmarking may not be what it once was but it’s still a nice addition to your link building and visibility efforts. Just make sure your site is optimized for mobile viewing so you don’t miss those mobile visitors!

~k, Visibility Specialist
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We’re so excited to have the new site up and running and we look forward to being your quality link building and social networking partners!

We were providing services before the new site hit the scene but now that it’s up, we’re ready to take the marketing world by storm! There’s a big huge gap in quality service providers in this arena…let me rephrase there WAS a big huge gap in quality service providers, until now!

I’ve been around this biz for a while and I got so fed up with the ‘junk’ I saw that I felt driven to bring quality services to the field. Of course I’ll make money from the business but I honestly didn’t build it based on that reason alone.

I was told a long time ago by my dearest client that I should start a VA service because I was very good at managing people & projects and that she would love to have a one stop shop for her needs so she didn’t have to fool with finding and managing people. I thought it was a good idea but for some reason I wasn’t driven to do it, so I didn’t. Then as I focused more on the marketing arena, I saw a big gap there and people were always so happy with me that I thought “you know, I could fill this huge gap for everyone” so I started putting a team together and deploying them to implement strategies for people and it went great! And I kept getting more work and more referrals. So Link Vines was born.

And I now realize there was a reason I didn’t pursue starting a VA service years ago (no we’re not really a VA service but we are in a sense, we’re just not focused on admin tasks). I believe it’s because I would come to realize, like I did recently, and like I didn’t before, how I could fill a big void and help people with a specialty service. It took me continuing to develop my own skills in the marketing arena and seeing the things I’ve seen to realize what people really needed and how I could fill the quality gap.

So, thanks Michelle for planting that seed years ago, now it’s come to fruition, just in a different manner than I thought of back then.

I LOVE marketing, I LOVE social media & networking, I LOVE providing top quality services, I LOVE watching a site rank higher & higher….so not only is the difference here at Link Vine about quality, it’s also about passion. These 2 things are what separates us from anyone else.

We’re excited you’re here and we hope we get the chance to work with you. Please check out our services page and read what others have to say.

Karen J., Visibility Specialist

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