One of the topics I’ve been hesitant to write about is mobile developments. Unfortunately I find that domainers (Domain investors) especially the more well known individuals don’t develop for mobile or even have mobile as a part of their strategy.
Most of my sites that I’ve created are mobile compatible & they have been for years. Yes years. One of my IDN sites gets 10X more traffic via mobile compared to PC.
Some people’s impression of mobile is iPhone equals mobile. Just because iPhone users are able to view your site via full browser doesn’t make it mobile compatible. Actually you are loosing control of your traffic.
One example to explain this is if you search for a site using Google while on a mobile phone the site will render via Google’s mobile rendering technology. If the site is mobile compatible a mark will show that it’s a mobile site. Even if your site is viewed via Google’s mobile rendering it doesn’t guarantee users will see the most recent content, nor does it guarantee this data will show up in your analytics data.
Google Analytics for mobile is a beast itself & I’ve had to modify the code (with the help of bugging Google people) years ago. Hate to say it but it’s seems like by the time domainers get to develop for mobile even high school students will be developing mobile sites.
This is not a backlash but hopefully a wake up for IDN Domain owners & domainers. The surprising thing is of all the domain blogs, forums, & sites out there Rick Schwartz is the only domain blog that I’ve seen that has a mobile version. There’s also one domainer I’ve found who’s site is mobile enhanced. I couldn’t really write this before as before the upgrade this was one of my few sites that wasn’t mobile compatible.