Few days ago one of my reader, Kunal Jain @krjx asked me about the mofuse mobile integration of my site. He came to my site by reading an older post I wrote about MoFuse: Create a mobile version of your blog with Mofuse. I attracted his attention by optimizing my MoFuse site and how I did that?
So I thought lets experiment a bit deeper into MoFuse and lets see what we can do with it. By the way, I’ve opted my mobile site with MoFuse here, m.blogkori.com. MoFuse is so simple because they use the blog’s feed to get the ten most recent posts.
MoFuse is a better option for blogspot or other platform users. For self hosted wordpress blog, I’ll tell you about a cool plugin in the end of this post. Take a look at my mobile site, m.blogkori.com,
The blog logo
First thing that you should keep in mind while building a mobile site is why you need your readers to browse your blog from mobile devices? This is because there are people who can’t access their pc because they are on the move all the time and for others who are totally depended on mobile web. The next thing you should focus on the compatibility. For this imagine a very simple mobile handset (Because not everyone got an iPhone!)
The basic and yet most simple mobile phone could have a 125×125 pixel display. So if you want to show your brand, then you have to keep your logo under 125 pixels in width. Reduce some quality of the log, so it’ll load easily, keep it under 5KB.
Description
Now you can add a description on your mobile homepage. Try to keep it under 15-20 words, because you don’t want your readers to scroll a down a long way! On the right side of your MoFuse dashboard, select “Edit Homepage” and write the description. You have the option to show it on everypage, don’t do it because it will bother your readers. Because your mobile site is a limited version of your blog, try to invite them to visit the full web site (Just as I wrote on the description)
Homepage content
By default, MoFuse shows the last ten posts of your blog on the mobile homepage. You can replace them with links and pages like I did here. I’ve created some special pages for mobile like the About, Web Design, Contact, Mobile RSS options etc. These are also called, blog category links. You can add these Just click on “Add a new page” and edit it. You can also re-order the pages.
Link informations
Mobile web users don’t like to click on every links because it’s a hard experience browsing from a mobile. So instead of words, I replaced them into link informations. I used ‘”blogkori.com/contact” instead of “Contact” -this way my reader will know where this link is and they will remember it.
Useful links for mobile visitors
I added these two options on the page. One is a page with some RSS reader buttons, which will allow them to subscribe to my blog. Other one links to the Google reader mobile version. I feel adding those options will add a value to my site and people will return again and again.
Professionalize it
MoFuse is a free service and they offer their premium service for free. Go to your site settings page and select “NO” on these two options. One is “Powerd by MoFuse” which will disable the mofuse logo on your page. Other one is “MoFuse recommended engine” which will disable other blog links on your pages.
Custom domain
You can use your own domain/ subdomain with MoFuse. I used m.blogkori.com instead of blogkori.mofuse.mobi. Go to “Custom domain” option and type your domain. You must configure your domain before by creating a CNAME entry with “sitename.mofuse.mobi. “
Mobile site for wordpress self hosted blogs
If you run a wordpress self hosted blog, then don’t use MoFuse because it’s very limited with only 10 posts. While researching on it, Kunal Jain again informed me about MobilePress. It’s a plugin for wordpress blogs which will render your complete blog into a mobile site. This is cool because I can see my posts, comments, pages and you also get a search box. Your readers visiting from a mobile page will automatically sent to the mobile site. See BlogKori Mobile version here: blogkori.com/?mobile
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- Do you have a mobile version for your blog?
- Which service/software you used for that?
- Do you think a mobile site is required?
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@Timothy: This is because you don’t have the access to change the CNAME entry of your sub domain. Write an email to your hosting support team and ask them to change the CNAME entry of http://m.charlesandhudson.com
Tell them to set the CNAME as: charlesandhudson.mofuse.mobi. -please remember that there should be an extra dot after “mobi” please do remind this about it to your support team.
On your MoFuse account, set custom domain to: m.charlesandhudson.com -If everything’s fine, it will work! Please do inform me if you have any questions on this topic.
Turns out Google Analytics does track mobile visitors, but I’m not sure how much faith I have in them as most bloggers say it’s not a simple thing to setup and involves some browser sniffing etc…
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If I use my adsense in mobi, do I have to share 50% of my revenue with mofuse? is it includes desktop hit?
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@antony, According to mofuse, you have to share 50% of your earnings
I agree for the mobile site. but do I have to share 50% of my revenue for the other sites I have?
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@antony, You have to share for only the sites from MoFuse. You don’t have to give share for your own sites.
I’m not sure many of my visitors read my articles from their phones but thanks to your article, it seems easy enough to make it easier for those who do.
Now it Turns out Google Analytics does track mobile visitors, but I’m not sure how much faith I have in them as most bloggers say it’s not a simple thing to setup and involves some browser sniffing etc.
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This was cool to read, thanks.
I’ve found this post sooo very helpful and will be taking another look at sorting mine out for my blog later this evening. Thank you!
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Sure, that would be a great and do let me know if you run into any trouble.
How are you Good Article. You should have noticed there is surely an ever rising rise in the application of mobile technologies as well as mobile phone handsets. The rise in desire for completely new products means a lot of hordes of consumers around the globe are often abandoning their older and even used mobile phones for fresher more ground breaking models. Thank you
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