Mobile Googlebot - Allow or Disallow

Some of our sites have already been crawled by something that looks like

Nokia6820/2.0 (4.83) Profile/MIDP-1.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

It’s the new Googlebot-Mobile using Nokia.

I have a mobile site. How can I add it to Google’s Mobile index?
How do I block or allow Googlebot?

I remember being told about mobile searches coming up in 2005 at the SES Convention in San Jose, California.

Building sites  with mobile searches in mind is going to gain importance, so this is the time to get familiar with what it takes to rank high.

So what I personally believe is that in order for a site to be doing well in the mobile searches, instead of using html you have to use something called WAP.
Let’s say you want to have a blog that targets mobile searches more than anything:
The whole interface needs to be redesigned, it’s actually a lot of work. Depending on what you are using, you might want to find if they have WAP compatible plugin.
WAP is Wireless Application Protocol.

It is really a simplified display so that people using wireless can quickly access what they need without having to download a bunch of pictures and javascript and other stuff used to make website “nice”.
As an example, WAP is used on Google, Yahoo!, and stock trading websites to allow people to quickly access what they need.
But as wireless phones get faster and mobile systems get better, such as iphone, WAP may one day be unnecessary. As for now, you can brand a site by using the advantage of being mobile optimized and dominate mobile searches if you’re working on it.
If you have some experience with mobile search results which you would like to share, feel free to leave me a comment.
This information has been compiled with the assistance of Mr. Winson Chu from Fone Leads.

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