| According to Wikipedia there are almost 5 billion | | | | blogger or another public hosting service. The easy |
| cellular phones in use in the world? meaning 67% of | | | | part is to go to your domain registrar and pick out |
| the world accesses services through their phone. Of | | | | a.com/.net/.org domain and register it. Once you have |
| those surveyed, a whopping 50% said that they | | | | registered your TLD, you can have this automatically |
| access their information mainly through their mobile | | | | forward your requests to your existing website. Say |
| phone. That's on the order of 2.5 billion potential users | | | | for example our blog is - we would want to get as |
| to come to your website.Most websites and blogs | | | | our TLD through the registrar. Once we registered |
| are not optimized to display information on the mobile | | | | the TLD, we go into the domain control panel, and |
| platform. | | | | set domain forwarding to forward all requests from |
| According to mobify.me, less than 10% of all | | | | to Once this is done it usually takes 24-48 hours for |
| websites surveyed, had a mobile accessible version | | | | the domain to transfer. While you are waiting you |
| of the web site. This means, that for the remaining | | | | can set up the.mobi address. |
| 90% of the websites, they were missing out on a | | | | Step 3: Register your.mobi address. The beautiful |
| very large chunk of potential traffic. For years now, | | | | thing about the.mobi address is that it currently is the |
| the consensus has been, it is extremely difficult or | | | | undisputed authority when it comes to mobile sites. |
| downright impossible to provide content for both the | | | | The beautiful thing about this is most domain |
| web and mobile market segments without | | | | registrars have teamed up with to provide this |
| complicated software or designing separate sites for | | | | mobilization service free. Head over to your domain |
| different versions of phones. Back in the early 1990's | | | | registrar, and register yourself a.mobi address (please |
| people ran into this same sort of problem when | | | | make sure that your registrar is participating with |
| discussing cross browser compatibility; however, in | | | | first). |
| order to take care of all the known browsers on the | | | | Step 4: Instantly mobilize your size. Using your domain |
| market (according to marketwatch), a person would | | | | manager through your domain registrar, select the |
| have to program well over 150 different web sites to | | | | previously registered.mobi site address, and select the |
| cover only 80% of possible combination's. | | | | option to add instant mobilization to the web site. |
| However, recent changes in the way information is | | | | After setting your.mobi site to your TLD from |
| posted to websites make it possible to easily and | | | | before, clicking a few setting options, and pressing |
| painlessly mobilize your content. Granted, the | | | | submit, you are well on your way to having a |
| following tips and tricks will only work if you do not | | | | mobilized website. After waiting the 24-48 hours for |
| have a lot of interactive components on your web | | | | the set up to finish, check out your new.mobi site |
| page. A good rule of thumb to know if these tasks | | | | (e.g. realwcs.mobi) and feel good in the fact knowing |
| can apply to your web site is to compare the | | | | that your site is now visible to an additional 5 billion |
| percentage of content available through your RSS | | | | users worldwide. |
| feed and the actual contents on your site. While | | | | Step 5: Share your.mobi site with the world. To take |
| shopping and e commerce sites will need a specific | | | | advantage of your fabulous mobilized site, make sure |
| interface for the mobile version, web logs and | | | | to register it to the.mobi site registry |
| affiliate marketing sites should have no problem using | | | | (mobithinking.com/showcase/submit). Submitting your |
| these tips to quickly and painlessly create a mobile | | | | site here will get your site into numerous mobile |
| version of their site. | | | | search engines, as well as cause some carriers to |
| Step 1: RSSify your content. This is the most | | | | automatically redirect mobile users to your mobile |
| important part - most users from their mobile | | | | version of the site when detected. |
| browser will be coming to your website to read | | | | Imagine, expanding your reader base by almost |
| informational blurbs and search for information | | | | 200% just by taking a couple of steps. Most users |
| content. Because of this, make sure that the content | | | | are still unawares of this easy route to expanding |
| in your site is easily transported into an RSS type | | | | their web traffic. I would recommend reading up on |
| feed. | | | | some of the links throughout the article as well as |
| Step 2 (optional): Make sure you have your own top | | | | visit the author's website for more information about |
| level domain (TLD). This step is mainly intended for | | | | easily mobilizing your website. |
| those users who are hosting their websites using | | | | |