Are you “Mobilised”? Visibility on Mobiles

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First, is your site optimized for mobile phone viewing? If not, download one of the Wordpress Mobile plugins. I’m using Andy Moore’s Wordpress Mobile (optimizes site for viewing, lets you give your site links preferred anchor text so people know exactly what that link will give them, pick preferred color scheme, lets your mobile Google Adsense & Admob ads show up, lets you show your Mobilise links, enables you to create “Mobile ONLY” posts and pages, & more) but there are a few others out there too.

Here’s a screenshot of the color layout choices:

These plugins make your Wordpress site optimized for mobile viewing…and they really need to be, it’s 2010 & we’re turning to mobiles & smart phones for more and more of our online browsing & searching. If your site doesn’t show up properly on mobiles, or is unorganized and “jacked up”, you could miss potential readers, clickers & buyers.

You can also submit your mobile optimized website to mobile social bookmarking sites like Mobilised.net.  Mobilised even makes it easy to submit links from your phone via Twitter (doubt I’ll be going through all this personally, but at least they’re giving options to those who are heavily relying on their mobiles for most everything these days). They also give you a badge that you can put on your site to allow others to vote for your site, just like a Digg.

Mobile social bookmarking isn’t huge yet, but it wouldn’t surprise me if we see it grow pretty soon. Am I bookmarking on them? Yup. Can’t hurt, I want mobile browsers to find my content & easily view it so I’m there. If it can improve visibility, count me in!

Some of our standard BMing sites are now offering mobile versions. Other MSB (mobile social bookmarking sites) include:

Mobiseer looks pretty promising.

Linkius, Mobleo, Pretty straight-foward mobile social bookmarking.

Phonefavs lets you go mobile w/existing bookmarks; also includes mobile directory & more. (Currently a paid service but I’m curious to see how long that lasts; they may have a hard time competing w/free services)

MDelicious makes your bookmarks easily viewable w/mobiles so be sure you’re bookmarking either via Del.icio.us or the mobile version.

There are a few more floating around out there, some seem to have transitioned or be in transition and some don’t seem to know what they want to do with themselves but I suspect someone will figure it out soon. Sites like Mobile.Tappity.com look a little confused and TapTap.net gave me a headache, but I suspect some others will get it right like Mobilised seems to have.

Bookmarking may not be what it once was but it’s still a nice addition to your link building and visibility efforts. Just make sure your site is optimized for mobile viewing so you don’t miss those mobile visitors!

~k, Visibility Specialist
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Tagged with: mobile social bookmarking • mobile website • visibility • wordpress mobile

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