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How to optimize your blog for your mobile readers?

By Rodelio Lagahit • January 3, 2010 • Filed in: Branding, Mobile Marketing, Wordpress

Updates: Links/referrals are now available.

Worried as to how will your readers react when they view your blog via their respective smartphones? You should be, because traffic is our source of income and mobile professionals is one source of traffic that can translate into money since all of these mobile professionals surf and do business via their mobile phones already.

So that everyone may know, this post was inspired by my previous post re. my frustrations on CralOcab.com when viewing it via my smartphone.

Optimization

Now, how to optimize our respective blogs for it to be a custom-fit to every smartphones? This has been a common problem to us bloggers after these so called smartphones hit the streets – we wanted to exploit its market potential, hence, we wanted our blogs to be user-friendly when viewed via smartphone.

Additionally, other authority bloggers didn’t care anymore about mobile optimization because they thought it’s darn expensive and(or) complicated to handle, set-up and use, but little did they know that a few alternatives are cheap while others are for free.

Plugin

Now, worry no more fellow pro bloggers because such tool that can help us optimize our respective blogsites for smartphone viewing is now a “WordPress Plugin.” Great news for WordPress users right?

As for its use & installation, just proceed to your admin panel, then to your plugin interface and click “add new plugin”. Via search bar, search “WordPress Mobile Pack,” now intsall it. And for the authors (Assembla), I’m giving this a 5 star status for its usefulness and relevance.

Now, worried if its WordPress 2.9 compatible? Don’t be, since I’m using it right now wherein I’m currently using the latest WordPress release i.e. 2.9, and I’m “uber” excited to use and exploit the plugins potential.

With this plugin, now I’m having no problems on creating a new post via my smartphone – Samsung OmniaPRO.

Note: No link referrals/hyperlinks this time because I’m trying to get used to it first. But, as per instruction, it’s interface is capable of handling “html” codes of which I’m dumb about it….

I can’t wait for an add-on feature that will copy & paste text/images inside the interface on top of that hyperlinking feature… :D

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Comments

woah! thanks for this! I'll try this one on my blog. Is the plugin applicable to the lower version of WP? I'm still using the lower version than 2.9. Also, are there any plug ins for Blogspot users?

thanks!

as per description, yes it's compatible with a bit lower version – i don't know really how lower the version it can accommodate.

as for blogspot users, i'm sorry, there's no plugin available for blogspot, better migrate your stuffs to wordpress…

 

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