Wednesday 21 January 2015

Should Search Marketers Spend More Time Optimizing for Apps or Mobile Web?

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) released a study this week titled "Apps and Mobile Web: Understanding the Two Sides of the Mobile Coin." The research dove into how mobile users are searching for accessing content and what that means for marketers.
According to the study, Internet use on mobile can be divided into two categories: the use of apps and browsing the mobile Web. The increase in the number of apps offered has often overshadowed the importance of the mobile Web, causing some confusion as to which means of access is predominately used.

The Search and Social Connection

According to the study, the most common way mobile Internet users find websites is from search and shared links from applications (predominately social media).
On the flip-side, the majority of respondents share mobile sites they like through word of mouth, email, and social media. But thankfully for search marketers, as you can see in the chart below, the vast majority of users surveyed still use search engines to find what they are looking for.

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