Is Your Blog Mobile Friendly?
If you're like me, you're always wondering if your blog is set up to be reader friendly, easy to navigate and well pretty. You change the colours, the template, the share buttons. And you judge your choices by examining it on the device you worked it all out on.
And if you're like me, you have been mindlessly oblivous to your blog's appearance on other devises and more or less content with the way your blog is set up.
Then I read an article by Greg Hickman.
Awww! What do you mean I may be losing up to 50% of my traffic? Is my blog mobile friendly?
Apparently more people are accessing the internet on some sort of mobile device than ever before and that number will continue to rise. So you better be sure your blog is user friendly on mobile devices.
How can you tell if your blog is set up properly? Greg explains it all in his article. That is if you're using wordpress. If you are interested click HERE to read the whole article.
For those who use blogger follow these simple steps.
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And if you're like me, you have been mindlessly oblivous to your blog's appearance on other devises and more or less content with the way your blog is set up.
Then I read an article by Greg Hickman.
Is Your Blog Mobile Friendly?
Awww! What do you mean I may be losing up to 50% of my traffic? Is my blog mobile friendly?
Apparently more people are accessing the internet on some sort of mobile device than ever before and that number will continue to rise. So you better be sure your blog is user friendly on mobile devices.
How can you tell if your blog is set up properly? Greg explains it all in his article. That is if you're using wordpress. If you are interested click HERE to read the whole article.
For those who use blogger follow these simple steps.
Sign into your Blogger account and go to TEMPLATE.
This is the window that opens. Click on the star below the Mobile screen shot.
This is the new window to open. Easy so far isn’t it.
Do you see that spot where you are given a choice? You want to click on Yes, Show mobile template on mobile devices.
Now just click on the preview button.
Ta Da! There you go. Check it out. I think mine looks pretty good.
Phew! What a relief. I almost had an anxiety attack thinking no one can read my blog on their cell phones. I'm safe. But to be sure I will have to check it out on someone's phone.
Oh, oh. That’s great, my blog posts can be read easily but if someone wants to share on twitter, pinterest or facebook... they won’t be able to.
If I want sharing, (if right eh?) then I should add a pop up window. But I'll take care of that later.
Hope you come back to see detailed instructions on how to add a pop up window on Blogger.
Til then, best wishes, Darlene
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Visiting from Turn It Up Tuesday! Thank you so much for the advice. I just recently installed WPTouch on my Wordpress blog and it looks so much better on my phone. I still can tweak it some more, but it's better than it was!
ReplyDeleteHi Serena, I still haven't checked out my blog on someone's phone yet. Glad to know your's is looking good. Thanks for stopping by with a comment. Best to you, Darlene
DeleteThis is something I've wrestled with...I've always been unsure of how to go about mobile templates for my blog. So much conflicting information on it, but I'm thinking I'll give this a try and then if I for some reason don't like it I can always switch it back! Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this. :)
ReplyDeleteGood to know you've already thought about it. Let me know how it works out.
DeleteI go back and forth on the mobile template idea. I don't like some of the features, but ease of reading should probably be the number one priority. I'm going to look into it. Thanks for sharing! #wakeupwednesday
ReplyDeleteAs bloggers we always have so many decisions to make. Sometimes it is a bit hard to figure out what is the best thing for our blogs.
DeleteThis is so helpful! Thanks so much for sharing I really appreciate it!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad it helped. It was my pleasure.
DeleteI need to check out my blog. Also checking out the article your recommended. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi Elizabeth. Thanks for stopping by. I hope you found the info useful.
DeleteI cannot thank you enough for this great advice!
ReplyDeleteHi Kate, glad to be of help.
DeleteI'm on blogger too, Great advice, making sure your site is mobile friendly is so important nowadays. Everyone is going mobile, don't forget about tablet views as well... I found a great tool for making your blogger site mobile shareable is to implement Add This, works great for my site!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the advice. I have Add This on my blog. I'll have to see how it translates to the tablet or phone.
DeleteGreat advice! Thank you for sharing this post at City of Creative Dream's City of Links last Friday! I appreciate you taking the time to party with me. Hope to see you again this week :)
ReplyDeleteI was glad to be part of the link party and I appreciate you taking the time to stop by here to leave me your sweet comment.
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