PB006: Make Your Blog Mobile Ready [Day 6 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog]

How to Get Your Blog Mobile Friendly Welcome to day 6 of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge where today we're going to talk about making your blog mobile friendly. While to get your blog completely mobile friendly will take you longer than a single day today you can come up with a plan to do so if you've not already. This task is VERY important. We're getting to the point where half of your blog's readers are probably viewing your blog on mobile devices and if your design isn't good you could be losing them and also running the risk of falling in Google's search rankings! If you're already mobile friendly - todays a great day to review your design not that front. In This Episode Why a mobile friendly design is so important for you to have in place Questions to ask when reviewing your blog design on mobile 2 Tools from Google to help you assess how your blog is performing on mobile devices My Confession with Mobile Friendly Blogs 3 Suggested ways forward if your blog is not mobile friendly - plugins, responsive themes and custom design Some suggestions for those of you who already have mobile friendly blogs Tools and Resources Test Your Blog Google's Make Your Website Work Across Multiple Devices Site (see the 'tool' on the right sidebar where you can add your URL to test your site. Google's Mobile-Friendly Test WordPress Plugins WP-Touch WP Mobile Pack Jetpack Responsive Themes I've used Studio Press who offer fully responsive designs. Need Technical Support? If you're feeling overwhelmed by the idea of installing and getting plugins set up or installing themes talk to the team at WPCurve who offer WordPress support and do small jobs. You can either sign up for a monthly plan to get ongoing support or hire them to do a one off job. Note: I am an affiliate for StudioPress and WPCurve. I've also been a user of both services and recommend them genuinely fro that experience and from knowing the teams behind them well. Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Welcome to the ProBlogger Podcast episode 6 on day 6 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Today, your challenge is to make your blog mobile-friendly. It's a challenge that will probably take you more than today, but you can do some great groundwork to get you well underway. Today's show notes are at problogger.com/podcast/6 First, a quick word from our sponsor, 99designs, the best place for new businesses to build their brand. 99designs makes it easy to get your next project off the ground with quality, affordable design. To get you a logo, business card, mobile app, blog template or more, visit 99designs.com/problogger and get a $99 upgrade for free. Hi, this is Darren from ProBlogger. Welcome to day 6 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, where we're teaching you 31 different things that you can do to improve your blog, and then challenging you to go away and do it. Really, the doing part is the most important part of this 31-day challenge, so I hope you are taking action. Today's challenge is a big one. Yesterday's was pretty small in many ways, but it had a big impact, but today's is a bigger challenge, and it may actually take you longer than one day to implement, but I want you to make some decisions today that you can go away and implement. Today's challenge is to make your blog mobile-friendly. I know some of you have already done this and I've got some things for you to do as well, but it's a really important challenge. We're approaching a time where more people will read blogs on their mobile devices than desktops. In fact, for many blogs, it's already happened. I know on my blogs, I checked this morning on Digital Photography School, half of my readers exactly 50% are now viewing the blog on mobile. On ProBlogger,