Niche website, does responsive design matter to you?

Smart phones will be a massive source of traffic in years to come, so it only makes sense to have your websites responsive or you won't maximise your potential earnings

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Zenoth 11 years ago

There are a lot of people who use their phones to surf the internet nowadays.

Besides, responsive design does not refers only to mobile devices, but also to tablets which are also of various sizes.

So, you will lose valuable traffic from both mobile phones and tablets, with a non responsive site.
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Shuffle

11 years ago

I completely agree with your responses. For example my wife's website for her photography is responsive and works great. What I don't know is...
What will a responsive design do with the adsense ads?

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Zenoth 11 years ago

I haven't used Adsense for a long time, but far as I know the Adsense ads are not responsive and of course will break a responsive layout in some cases.
Yet, it seems to me that Adsense developed a specific ad type which is responsive (I can be wrong, I have not recently visited my Adsense account ).
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Tom Addams

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Shuffle

I completely agree with your responses. For example my wife's website for her photography is responsive and works great. What I don't know is...
What will a responsive design do with the adsense ads?

I would avoid AdSense. Honestly. There are ways to generate a very high income with AdSense, but in my personal experience it boils down to this:

1. High-Paying Keywords
2. Volume Sites.
3. Volume, Targeted Traffic.

You'd be much better off monetizing with affiliate offers and, simultaneously, growing a list.

Tom

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Janice Sperry

11 years ago

You might want to look at the Clickbump theme. It is not free but it is well worth it. It is superfast loading, you can paste in adsense, amazon plus others, and it has lots of different skins to choose from. Great support.

Oh... almost forgot... it is responsive.

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quadagon

11 years ago

In 2014 over 50% of search on Google was from mobile (smartphone or tablet).

Its only going to increase so i would always go responsive at the start.

Also be careful with free themes they can contain malware and other nasties Google doesn't like which can stop you getting approved for adsense.

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Shuffle

11 years ago

Tom, my website revolves around physical products and there isn't really any informational products to sell as an affiliate. however it seems that most people who are researching this niche are looking to buy soon. My plan was to do maybe 2 adsense ads, one around the header area and one in the sidebar. As well as doing amazon text links in my articles.

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kilgore

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Shuffle

Tom, my website revolves around physical products and there isn't really any informational products to sell as an affiliate. however it seems that most people who are researching this niche are looking to buy soon. My plan was to do maybe 2 adsense ads, one around the header area and one in the sidebar. As well as doing amazon text links in my articles.

Not to speak for Tom, but he didn't mention anything about informational products. There are plenty of businesses (mine included) doing very well at affiliate marketing without pitching a single informational product. If the site's about photography Amazon is a good bet as are B&H Photo and Adorama. There are others you should also check out, but those seem to be the big three when it comes to photography.

That said, there's nothing to preclude you from putting a couple of Adsense ads on your site as well, though my guess is that Tom's right and you'll make a lot more using other monetization methods. I mix an occasional Adsense add in on my site and even on good months Adsense still comprises less than 3% of my site revenue (though it should be noted that I have purposely not optimized Adsense when it comes to placement, ad types, ad categories, etc.).

Still, don't change your plans just because a couple of strangers gave you some advice. Research it, think about it, try something, evaluate it, then go back and research and think about it some more.

As to your original question, I'll just add my voice to the chorus that says "responsive" is an absolute must. In fact, I can't think of a single business case as to why you wouldn't want a responsive site.

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kindsvater

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Shuffle

The only problem I have with it is it is non responsive so on a mobile it looks bad.

It is important the site look good and be functional on mobile.

That does not mean you need a responsive theme, and some of the responsive themes I have seen look bad and mess-up a page layout you may want.

So I would rephrase your question to does your site need to look good and be functional on mobile devices? Yes. One of the options for accomplishing that is a responsive theme, but make sure the final look is what you want.

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karlstech

11 years ago

Considering that so many people are on mobile devices nowadays, then yes you should have a responsive design.

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Lightlysalted

11 years ago

More and more people access websites through mobile devices, it does need to be optimised for mobiles. I'd choose another theme personally

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quinng123

11 years ago

I would definitely get a response design to maximize profits depending on the market/niche.

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Randall Magwood

11 years ago

If i understand correctly, your blog doesn't show up correctly on mobile devices? (Hopefully this is right... i dont want to sound like an idiot). You can always use a mobile phone site creator tool (like DudaMobile) and at the very least... use it to capture a lead. But if you want links to other places on your blog from a mobile device, it allows for this too. Good luck man.

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E L

11 years ago

I agree that all sites this day and age need to be responsive. Duda (formerly dudamobile) offers free responsive websites. Free forever, not just free trial. For the record, I work for them.

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PreScriptZ

11 years ago

with very old sites, perhaps there's really no big issue with responsive, because Google still loves them; but with new sites, I think responsive layout is a big problem if you don't have it

if it's too complicated to make whole site responsive; you better create a simple mobile version for main site, to server mobile users

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Slade556 11 years ago

Originally Posted by PreScriptZ

with very old sites, perhaps there's really no big issue with responsive, because Google still loves them;

That's not the case, unfortunately, Google announced the big change long before they implemented everything, and they actually make responsive websites a priority now. So, new website or old, everyone needs to adapt!
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beiter

11 years ago

Yes I see this as a problem, especially for mobile users

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Ashley Skuse

11 years ago

As of recently, mobile design is a ranking factor in SEO

so it's absolutely worth applying it to your website. Also, if the website isn't optimised, you'll turn traffic away.

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Med Man

11 years ago

Check out the Heat Map Theme, it's made for adsense and responsive. You can choose which ads to show on mobile and which on tablet, so it might be what you're looking for hopefully.

You'll do yourself a disservice even before you start building your site if you don't have a responsive theme, as Google views this as a ranking factor as the above Warriors mentioned. Better make sure you cover all the bases when starting as you will have a harder time ranking your site and making any income. You don't want to make it harder for yourself.

Hope this helps.

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Brent Stangel

11 years ago

You'll do yourself a disservice even before you start building your site if you don't have a responsive theme

Yes you will.

There is no reason whatsoever to not have a responsive site.

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6figure101

11 years ago

As of this month, Google has openly stated that if your site is not mobile friendly, your site/rankings, will be penalized.

Mobile is where more than 50% of your traffic will be coming from (statistically).

I think you have your answer

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