How To Get A Blog Displayed Properly On Mobile

You can probably just get a plugin. I could be wrong but I believe that JetPack do it.

If you are using Wordpress for your blog, then I would suggest using WordPress Mobile Pack plugin or spicing things up with a new mobile compatible theme.

The WPTouch theme is good, but when writing for mobile, you really need to pay attention to your content. Short paragraphs rule!

Didi, you have already received comments concerning how to adapt WordPress to serve content on a mobile phone screen and, as you can read, this is possible. Before you start to integrate these you need to consider your customers rather than focusing on the technology.

There is a considerable amount of research published concerning the behaviour of customers who are using mobile phones. One quote from Google's "The mobile playbook" is - "Your mobile site will difer from your desktop site not just because of the size of the device, but because the mobile context reveals a diferent mindset for your consumers. Visitors to your mobile site may be at a diferent point of the purchase funnel."

A mobile phone has a much smaller screen than a desktop computer and this influences what type of content consumers wish to see and are prepared to read. Also mobile phones are often used by customers on the move or whilst doing other things eg watching the television. This means that the your existing content may not be suitable for display on a mobile phone (perhaps it is much too long or full of very large images) or it may not be of interest to your customer at the time they are using their mobile phone.

Before you start to implement the solution in your website you need to understand how your customers use mobile and what information they will be seeking and what they will want to do at that point.

There are many threads on this forum discussing how to adapt WordPress so that it displays on a mobile phone and I am not completely convinced that this is the right way forward without the site owner and understanding the issues I have outlined above. Of course tempting an existing WordPress installation to display on a mobile phone offers benefits - one single website, one administration panel and one source of content, but displaying the existing content on a mobile phone may not actually be delivering the experience and content / information that the smart phone user wants.

Hello ppc4profit,

Thank you very much for your important advice. It seems that I have totally overlooked this part and I think this is one important factor than one shouldn't overlook. Thank you for reminding me on this matter.

With that being said, can I inquire from you as to what are the available sources out there that I can use for me to be able to collect these important information pertaining to the customer's buying behaviour while using their mobile devices? I will search through this forum based on this topic but do you know any other sources besides the discussions from within this forum?

I remembered coming across a certain thread, while I was searching for books on Google that Marketing Experts have revealed that the statistics for people purchasing online via their mobile devices has increased dramatically ever since smartphones were introduced in the market.

If the experts are right on this assessment, I see it as an opportunity; another channel from which you can get traffic over to your site. Search Engine is one channel from which we can gain traffic, and so is the Social Media. But of course, the way of approaching differs from one and the other. And you have brought up a very good important point.

Then again, based on your experience, any idea that you can share pertaining to the sources that one is able to use and obtain these critical information?

As for normal websites and blogs, Google Analytics is one good source to obtain these critical information. Based on the information obtained, we can somehow see what could be wrong with our website and how we can go about into improving those defects.

Another source (only for Wordpress Blog) is a plugin, "WP Feedback, Survey & Quiz Manager Pro" that I came across while searching for Mobile themes over at ThemeForest.

It's a good plugin if you want to get important feedback from your customers which can help improve your site and business and it is something and I am considering getting and use on my site.

Do share some of your thoughts and I appreciate your kind help and advice. Thank you.

Didi

Thank you very much for your help. I'll get on these right away.

Didi