Mobile Version Of Your Blog

With more and more people surfing the web using their cell phones, you need to provide a mobile version of your blog.

That's if you wish to reach the cell phone-toting crowd, that is.

I signed up at Mobile Fusion (MoFuse.com) and easily converted one of my blog's RSS feeds into a mobile version. You can check it out at http://m.mofuse.com/manuelviloria

One great feature of MoFuse is that you can grab some PHP code that automatically redirects your cell phone surfing visitors to the mobile version of your site, just in case they first visit your regular blog. You can also see your MobiReady score, which tells you if your site is standards compliant.

Will this help increase traffic to your site? Let's give this a few weeks and see how the traffic moves. In the meantime, if you're interested in making your blog mobile phone-ready, try the MoFuse service. It's currently "by invitation only", but Richard MacManus has around 200 MoFuse invites left.

Will cell phone subscribers bother visiting our blogs? Who knows? You'll never know, though, unless you test.

[ First posted on 10/09/2007 by Manuel Viloria ]