Joel Cheesman

Some great year-end posts from the world of SEO and mobile worth sharing:

• Smartphone share of cell phone sales set to soar - Smartphones will capture 37 percent of the worldwide cell phone market by 2014, a leap from 16 percent in 2009, predicts a new report from Pyramid Research.
• Bing’s Search Share To Keep Growing Thanks To Toolbar Deals - Microsoft has been aggressively buying deals to put Bing toolbars on new PCs.
• 2010: the year SEO isn’t important anymore? - The writing is on the wall. Small business marketing is moving away from focusing on SEO. Why do I say that? Because, well, Google and Bing are changing the rules so often and are getting so good at figuring out the real businesses that deserve to be on pages.
• Hot on SMS, cold on apps: MMA’s view of 2010 - SMS is one of the oldest wireless technologies still in use, and for good reason: It is nearly ubiquitous in terms of device and network support, enjoys wide consumer awareness across all demographics and is relatively inexpensive for consumers, brands and marketers.
• 8 Predictions for SEO in 2010 - SEO trails only social media and online video as places where marketers (not just search marketers, but ALL marketers) will be shifting dollars.