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My site is very simple: my pages have a left side with key header links and on the right side is a pic that is a link to an ebook squeeze page. In the middle is my blog content.

Now what would be very easy to do is take all 220 pages of my site and just eliminate the left and right side and create dup mobile pages that have the middle part, i.e. the blog content. In other words, I'd like to create a mobile site that would load lightning fast and be very easy to read.

Here's my concern:

The pages would be almost entirely duplicates of my main blog pages but in a different folder. This would be a help to my readers and I'm sure they'd like it. But could it hurt me in the SERP's? I believe Google says that it won't, but I wanted to get other people's actual experience.

Any advice is much appreciated...
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  • Profile picture of the author jjebfafl
    Hey Why...

    ...I guess my first question would be "WHY do you need to have a MOBILE version of your blog?" Is a lot of your traffic on the go and looking for your updates while they are out and about on the town?

    Reason why I am asking is that alot of the Mobile site discussion here seems to be focused on businesses, especially local ones, that can take advantage of the growing mobil market, ie. local restaurants and service providers that one might do a search on while out running errands.

    Make sense?

    Not saying that you shouldn't have a mobile site as I just did my own first Mobile site for myself at J5Enterprises which is a very basic mobile type of site listing for my main consulting site at Small Business Marketing & Web Consulting. But I'm not converting 220 pages of content. I just focused on providing 4-5 main mobile pages that summarized my Services, Contact info, etc.

    I also put together a more colorful / graphics type of restaurant mobile site template that I am going to use to market to local restaurants and was thinking of offering as a WSO special--to test and see how the Offline gold marketers here might like it for their own offline consulting use.

    You should look at Matt Bush's WSO package on here about Mobile sites, which I have purchased myself and used to start my site from. You can see Matt's WSO here and its just $27 bucks:

    http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...local-biz.html

    Believe Matt also talks about WP Plugin that helps with blog to mobile type of setup if I remember correctly. Hope that helps with my 2 cents, but would love to hear how you proceed and what you come up with!

    Anything I can help with let me know...

    Many Blessings,
    Jerold
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    • Profile picture of the author Why9999
      Originally Posted by jjebfafl View Post

      Hey Why...

      ...I guess my first question would be "WHY do you need to have a MOBILE version of your blog?" Is a lot of your traffic on the go and looking for your updates while they are out and about on the town?

      Reason why I am asking is that alot of the Mobile site discussion here seems to be focused on businesses, especially local ones, that can take advantage of the growing mobil market, ie. local restaurants and service providers that one might do a search on while out running errands.

      Make sense?

      Not saying that you shouldn't have a mobile site as I just did my own first Mobile site for myself at J5Enterprises which is a very basic mobile type of site listing for my main consulting site at Small Business Marketing & Web Consulting. But I'm not converting 220 pages of content. I just focused on providing 4-5 main mobile pages that summarized my Services, Contact info, etc.

      I also put together a more colorful / graphics type of restaurant mobile site template that I am going to use to market to local restaurants and was thinking of offering as a WSO special--to test and see how the Offline gold marketers here might like it for their own offline consulting use.

      You should look at Matt Bush's WSO package on here about Mobile sites, which I have purchased myself and used to start my site from. You can see Matt's WSO here and its just $27 bucks:

      http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...local-biz.html

      Believe Matt also talks about WP Plugin that helps with blog to mobile type of setup if I remember correctly. Hope that helps with my 2 cents, but would love to hear how you proceed and what you come up with!

      Anything I can help with let me know...

      Many Blessings,
      Jerold
      Well, to answer your first question: I just want people to read the content on my site and if it's easy to read on their mobile, then that's great with me cuzz they'll be reading my blog more as they go about their daily activites and life.

      I want people to be in the habit of daily going to my site. I want regular readers of my site because I'm a true blogger at heart: I want to help people; I want to influence people (and if I can even make a little money on the way that would of course be great as well).

      And let me say one thing: conversion would be SUPER-easy. Basically the left and right side of my pages come from server side includes. So basically I could make a quick copy of all 220 pages into a folder and then do a quick replace to a new server side include and - shazam! - I'm done. It would probably take me about two minutes.

      But this is what I care about: I do not want to do anything that would hurt me in the SERP's. I only have about three pages that get any traffic whatsoever from Google and I don't want to mess those up! (All my other traffic comes from twitter and rss.)

      Again, any advice is much appreciated...
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  • Profile picture of the author hotlinkz
    Hellow Why9999,

    Have you checked out any of the Wordpress Mobilization Plugins?

    A quick Google on "wordpress mobile plugin" may lead you to a viable solution.

    Best regards,

    CeeJ
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  • Profile picture of the author silho
    Why:

    If your blog is built in Wordpress then there is no need to copy your files into a new folder. There are about half a dozen really good plugins that will do the job for you.

    If not then I would suggest getting a programmer to write a script to automatically do the work for you (and make sure it's a simple .shtml removal and not a file copy). That way you don't have to worry about your SERP, and you wont have to worry about spending your days and nights copying and pasting your blog posts to another folder. I'm sure you have better things to do.

    More importantly, I noticed that your last response was filled with "I's" - which is bad. You kept saying that 'you' want your blog to be mobile and that 'you' wanted to your readers to read your blog on the go. I hate to tell you this... YOU are not important in this matter. Your readers are!

    You should survey your readers to find out what type of devices they have, what type of data plans they have and are they really interested in reading your blog while on the go.

    Another important factor to ask yourself is if the information that you deliver is either location specific or time sensitive. That helps determine how quickly you should go mobile.
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