Mobilizing Your Site For Added Traffic

July 23, 2010

Mobilizing Your Site For Added Traffic

By: Neville Hobson

A few weeks ago, I installed a new WordPress plugin on this site that would enable visitors on mobile devices to find their experience here worthwhile and make it more likely they would stick around on their visit, perhaps engage by leaving a comment, and maybe even return again.

The plugin is the WordPress Mobile Pack and it automatically knows a mobile device when it's accessing content here.

So instead of the web pages you see on a desktop or laptop screen, you'd see content displayed in a manner far more appropriate for the small screen of your typical mobile phone, like the example you see here – what this website looks like when I access it on my HTC Desire smartphone.

You just can't expect anyone with a screen this small to have any kind of pleasurable time on your website if what they get is a minute version of a standard web page with text looking so small that you can't read it even with a magnifying glass. I bet a lot of people do what I do in such situations: leave.

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