Websites are going mobile.

Making your site mobile friendly can get you even more visitors than if you only have a company website accessible on a computer.

At the end of 2006, according to Informa’s Mobile Market Status 2007, there were 2.7 billion mobile phone users

• three times as many mobile phones as personal computers(850 million)

   

• over a quarter of all internet access is already from mobile phones

   

• twice as many people use messaging on a phone (SMS text messaging) as use e-mail on the web.

   

• more people are accessing the internet via mobile rather than PC in , and

   

People on mobile phones that are surfing the net are looking for quick info. It is not the same as surfing the net for leisure. Mobile surfers are in a hurry and only have time for the most important pieces of info - they don't care about the fluff text. If you look at mobile sites, they are made up of the logo/company name, a few links to other pages, up to 3 small paragraphs (paragraph meaning up to 2 sentences long) and perhaps one graphic. The screen size is about 320 px width which is not much when listing information regarding your company and services. Mobile friendly means stripping basically EVERYTHING off the page and leaving the bare essentials - and fitting it into a 320px screen size.

In order to have a mobile site, you must either purchase a .mobi domain name or have your hosting company set up a sub-domain (m.domain.com). We then set up a switcher program that detects where the user is coming from (i.e. PC or Mobile Device) and directs them to the appropriate website (i.e. if coming from a PC the switcher program will direct them to the .com website and if the user is coming from a mobile device the switcher will direct them to the mobile website).

That’s not to mention all of the others in the word (1.5 Billion total) who could be viewing your website…. (# of people world wide who have internet access via a computer)

You can increase the number of viewers who visit your site by reaching mobile users estimated to be approximately 2.7 Billion

As you can see, the internet is EVERYWHERE…make sure that people can not only find you through a search engine but that they can also view your site on their mobile device. Why not let me help you to get a new technological head start on your competitors?

To see an example, you can visit my website www.ert2go.com from your mobile phone which will automatically redirect you to www.ertwebsitesolutions.mobi