Is Your Website Set Up for Mobile Phone Viewing? That’s the Future

A few weeks ago I told you about my visit to the Network Solutions Booth at Blog World New Media Expo 2011 in New York City. While I was there, a company representative set up my iPhone for mobile, or smart phone, viewing. There were a couple of kinks to fix later. But I’m happy to report that it has been working like a charm.

If you don’t have your website set up for for mobile, you should consider these statistics from a study released in July by the well-respected Pew Research Center. In its first standalone measure of smartphone ownership, the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that one third of American adults — 35% — own smartphones. Mobile phones are a main source of internet access for one-quarter of the smartphone population, according to the study.

Some 87% of smartphone owners access the internet or email on their handheld, including two-thirds (68%) who do so on a typical day. When asked what device they normally use to access the internet, 25% of smartphone owners say that they mostly go online using their phone, rather than with a computer. Those are startling statistics and, I believe, will only grow over time. I see in my Google Analytics that a growing number of visitors to my blog are coming via their mobile phones.

Here is How My Website Looks on my iPhone

I took this picture myself so excuse the quality but here it is what my site looks like if you search for Write Speak Sell on your mobile phone. I love the functionality and how my logo pops. When you pull up my site you will see these links:

• Tell a friend. Click on this icon and you are taken to a screen with three options for sharing my site: email to a colleague, or posting to Twitter or Facebook.
  
• Call Us. Click on this icon and my phone rings.
• Full Website. Here you have two choices when you click on the icon. You can view my mobile friendly website or the standard website. If you’ve trolled the internet recently you know that viewing a standard website is difficult because the view is so small. You need to keep moving around the various parts of the site and, unless you can enlarge the view, it’s almost impossible to read the copy. The mobile friendly version takes the content from your website and delivers it in easy-to-read text along with your images.
  
• Write Speak Sell Blog. If you only want to read my latest blog post, you can click on this icon and be taken directly to the blog section of my website where you can read my latest posts in mobile format.
• Keep Me Informed. Click on this icon and you can subscribe to my blog.

If you want your website to work harder for your business, then consider making it mobile friendly. It’s easy and you will be rewarded with more traffic that may lead to more business.

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