From mobile website sites to Google sites or mapped sites that drive traffic without using bandwidth, these are just some of the options being blasted out, does your website do this?

website need updating?

Hi my name is Robert Bridge hence the name of the blog, I have noticed a few simple mistakes being made on Word Press Plug-ins, I have also noticed new options on my Google Android phone that changes the look of a website but does give me the option to allow plug-ins, what this means for us as web developers and web designers I really do not know what I do know is reading a blog needs to be Mobile enabled, however as already mentioned some mobile plug-ins need updating, in-fact they really do suck as far as website design is concerned.

In this post I will also summarise this month and what has been happening in my life and here on Robert Bridge.mobi. The first thing to understand is that I am British, I was born in the British Isles and am currently targeting Britain with the information that I provide. This is not my only domain. I have three others, some of these domains I have split tested one website after another, its only recently I have discovered split testing is for simple sales pages and not a website per se. I am not saying blogs cannot be sales pages, because they can especially if you are an affiliate or building a membership website.

Does your website have a domain or sub-domain?

The key thing to understand is split testing a website is when you create two similar pages on either different URL’s (www.robert-bridge.mobi/a www.robert-bridge.mobi/b), perhaps on two different sub domains (that is the same domain name starting with www.NAMEOFSUBDOMAIN.robert-bridge.mobi ) or you just use two different domain names and create the two similar pages (a: www.robert-bridge.info b: www.robert-bridge.mobi).

Would your website benefit from paid advertising?

Either way the only viable method of really testing a website in this manner is by getting lots of traffic, the best way to do this is with advertising. Google advertisements cost money and require an account that you use in conjunction with your bank card. Now I have been a member of the Google Engage program since early October and have been handing out £50 CD’s to potential customers. The point of this being is they get £50 worth of free advertising, a manual to go with it. The truth is not many people have actually advertised a website  with Google because they are afraid of getting billed. The truth is if you know what you are promoting converts through split testing, you can really ramp it up to get back what you put in, chances are by the time you have gone through your £50 worth of Google advertising via the voucher you will be able to determine which page, correctly designed as well as correctly advertised will yield back more money than actually used in the advertising process that you can use with your website.

Other spin off for a website mean your page will rank a lot better in the search engine, not only because your testing will be so rigourous but also because it just will, especially if your bidding of keywords converts sticks and is accepted for what ever time you set it to be. Again this should send other types of ripples for website in the search engines. You can also target this for mobile users and apply it to your own website, which may or may not mean cheaper advertising.

Many developers have provided mobile templates for each website, as well as mobile plugins, not 100% how this differs other than what you may want to do with you website page, what I mean is some people will be reducing the size of the page, so they can add to a Facebook Page and embed in an I Frame in the hope that the Facebook page will pop up on whatever FaceBook app, folks use, that includes I pads, this is just a prime example of a WordPress template that works for mobile. As already mentioned there are a few Mobile plug-ins, but both of the ones I use are currently struggling to show pages. Does this mean the plug-ins need updating, well I not really sure, some other things I need to consider are other plug-ins, perhaps they are clashing, another query could be about Google AdSense recently added inside my blog posts. The mobile apps before this were good, now only the Google ads show via the WordPress plug-ins. If you have any input into troubleshooting this problem I would welcome your feedback here on Robert-Bridge.mobi website.

The names of two good mobile plug-ins are WPTouch and another one is based on the Pom Pilot enabled plugin or an old one called viewMobile. depending on what mobile phone you use you will be able to test your website and see if the website is working. This month I went to a meeting by some leaders in the mobile industry. The meeting was based in Covent Garden and the clients that this company had worked for ranged from locations in US, France, Dubai and Monaco, as you can imagine these mobile sites were pretty nifty, rest assured if I was advertising these type of mobile designed website s, advertising would be a cinch. Things like Hotels, mobile phone companies, online airlines booking, luxurious jewellery and brand names like Prada etc. The company is Web Spiders, they even gave me access to the Transport Museum worth about £13 it was really awesome and I got a couple of nice photo’s.

This month I have probably given away about 25 CD’s with £50 worth of Google Advertising, each customer I gave the CD to were already qualified. I qualify them as good customers who will more than likely take action with this £50 by the fact they already have a business model, they already are in a dream team, they are already making sales of products and services, or have already proved that people like whatever it is the website put forth on the world wide web. Not 100% sure how this will help me, however it was great to make people smile, since there is lets face it a lot of desperation in all quarters right now, perhaps I am seeing things through a different lens to you.

The things I see are pensions reducing, I see people getting laid of work, I see stocks and investments yeilding less % of profit for investors and brokers and this is making things more and more difficult so you need a good website.

You pay for a service not always are you guaranteed a profitable service, you pay for advice on a panel of underachievers who like playing with other peoples money, this is not good, however some website advice is very good.

Equally some case studies are good, when you here presentations from leaders with great products or mobile website s for instance and realise that even when you have the best technology designed by the leading outsources of the world at the cheapest price, nothing is guaranteed, this is why multi testing a website is always good. Some companies fail simply because they dictate how and what should be, when everybody should know by know listening is the best option. Concentrating on the basics for your website will help to do this.

Anyone with half a sense of purchasing power will tell you what they want and need, they will also tell you the problems of navigation, and will also kick up a fuss if you do not deliver what you promise on your own website.

That I presume is why most companies from the offshoot over deliver from the initial purchasing offer. In the case of advice and information often the bonus will be more information. Unfortunately I like many suffer from information overload and am already hoarding a load of information that is good but much of which is dwindling in popularity, rendering it overtime a website useless.

My tip learned from others is take action immediately and hopefully you will get an immediate return on investment within the website you choose to make.

In the case of advertising, if you keep its sales friendly, you glitz up your longstanding outstanding products packaging and branding, throw in a few extra bonuses or give your customers loads of what Raymond Aaron calls wow factors then you should be ok, you time invested will yield payment, and you will score a few brownie points in the Success.com archives especially if you have a decent website.

Imagine this and you cannot go far wrong, if you do not have a product or service yet you can create some, from physical e-commerce friendly products, not just all about EBay. Or finish writing that book, or in many cases successful books are based on current interpretations of older dustier books, maybe its a home video you and your drama team have made of a book you liked reading, perhaps it is a how to product, for example how to get a stand in part in Coronation Street, How to knot that perfect tie, How to be the best at Cross Country, how fishing lures differ from fishing weights, the lsit is endless, and chances are from this how-to list its easy to find out what is already there and what is not. They all have a pretty good website to so take a look and inspect the code, you might get some good ideas, right?

Push And Pull Mobile website version

Perhaps its already there but is there a mobile version, if so how much would it either be worth to develop a mobile app that people can download for a reasonable price. Rememebr there is a recession but people still love pressing the advertisement links, online, offline, mobile enabled map enabled, via search as many searches as there are now, perhaps its some clunky device you addon you browser.

Remember the days of Traffic Swarm the browser where you could click and click, the boxes brown and boring but the traffic yield qualified targeted hits, if you do not like the idea of mastering advertisements and see through the search engine optimization fads this is something that will always be there, but remember traffic surfing is full of other desperate traffic surfers, after more hits.

Luckily there will always be two types of people, 5% of people are action takers, these are the same people who create great products and deliver great services. These same people will recognise a good deal, and always say yes to a decent product, that said they should not be classed a competition because they are already winning.

Winners like to make more winners, its true but any negative connotations or the littlest of faults in what you promise they will sniff you a mile of. be lucky and good luck. I can say I seen this principle in action this week at a seminar in London called the Shift Event.

At the Event a relatively newbie speaker sold a product to one of the other speakers, who were already really successful.

Knowing this has helped me with my confidence of networking with other successful marketers, but I would recommend you do your own due diligence to find out what goes where in relation to what you are developing and bringing to the website party.

Facebook is a popular website everybody know this and according to statistics reported in Web Pro News from Marketing Circle shows figures of growth have froze since the launch of Google +. Google + is good but its not as social networking tool yet for mainstream business. Why and where you can start relearning and reminding you and your colleagues the new important applications you need on Facebook to get more traffic via mobile phones, add Intel to the local interest, or simply reach out and help your fellow contacts who share a basic interest of Facebook marketing and who have a Blackberry or some other smart phone, pom pilot device.

First I would like to share today’s news, about the observations from three different sources that give reason to remind, reevaluate and optional extras to play around with to make The Facebook Page a more resourceful tool for contacting customers, local events, focus groups, Blogger readers via RSS, e-mail, mobile or cloud computing. The options vary depending on the software available to you. The good news is the applications mentioned here are hot right now, and I will share with you how you can find out what is hot right now with Facebook applications.

API is something that is keeping people busy, stalling businesses from playing with previous applications that in many instances have more practical options than the actual pages. Any web page generally as blogger we know the page or space you wish to funnel traffic and readers is based on a web page, most critiques of Facebook pages will be skeptical about a Facebook Fan page or Facebook community page without a website link. The reality is with Apps know the Facebook page has everything you need, but without for example a landing page built in the code of allowing the like button to be pressed has been the focus for the year, this is becoming more popular as I explain the update of the like button posts on top of the original like of page.

I have been meaning to make a re-review of Facebook for two weeks but have had limited access to the Internet. There was a post two or more weeks ago in a category I and many others read about in the category of Search Engine Optimization it may have been SEO moz I cannot remember but basically it was a post from a fan of Facebook, who used a blog and his blog traffic was 98% SEO optimised through Facebook applications that he had used on Pages and blog to rank well on a local level of marketing.

There are about on average three or more webinars that I get invited to attend and learn a week about Facebook, I am sure the same is coming into everyone else who frequent Facebook in the marketing niche. Mobile marketing 90% of the time restricts the ability to attend these webinars and recordings, but apps are being developed to accept things like Adobe Flash presentations and movies playing on the phone, for now though due to restrictions in Battery life and the price of mobile bandwidth outside of the wireless connections you have at home or down the Internet coffee shop.

The statistics and quantative data I provide is by know means accurate but the Facebook options available as simple as they may look are actually more than enough to instill confidence in marketers and local small businesses to continue using for business purposes, regardless of the current effects.

Many offline businesses understand the predictive two year estimates of projected continual efforts online in generating more business, having the time can cost money, spending can add confusion to the dedication of this business with the gadgetry online because of outsourcing and online delegating of jobs, but in the beginning it took understanding, but in all my experience and omissions we are still only at the beginning of this transition, any fan of social media may sigh, but at the same time there are ten people who are just starting out sending there first e-mail, or have just upgraded from mobile phone to smart phone.

Firstly let me reccomend a website that you may or may not already use or have bookmarked for checking in on current hot apps for Facebook or apps that were one you use but are beginning to wane in popularity, possibly due to drops in popularity often based on useability or floods of people. The website is called

http://apps.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=190322544333196&sk=app_179155722150113

I found this website in AllFacebook.com which states is an unnofficial Facebook information portal. They list popular applications to add onto your Facebook pages or intergrate into your blogs.

If you are a developer you will be able to get some ideas of what you really need to cover to reach the masses and give them something interesting to use your developed application. What seems to be overlooked about Facebook is the synnergy it offers, and the intel they provide, as marketers you will already understand the ability to make advertisements and sell or advertise there, or perhaps you are spending more time over on Google + because you enjoy not having advertisements put before you.

If this is so, I hate to burst your ad free bubble but the Google + account requires a Gmail account, and this is where you receive the majority of targeted adds based on the e-mails you receive. Also advertising with Google rather than Facebook is becoming way more exclusive, the predictions these past few months have been that small businesses ie anyone with an advertising budget of less than perhaps $10,000 per month may have to find alternative methods.

Advertising effectively has or was based on obtaining likes to Facebook pages, as far as getting eyeballs to information and creating a list of people to can share info, intel and make happy through content has come at a cost, with a more user friendly method of communicating with Facebook users given they know which page to read, or the group they are in to guide them in the progression of business, marketing is becoming offline more popular. You see a marketing firm opening up in most business hubs of towns and cities, but the actual money and intel raised has to be the online buzz of marketing seminars, webinars, blogs, tweets, mobile pings and other manner of things.

In conclusion I will add a few links one of which is just a bit of personal fun that takes a few seconds to like and see the Flash effects therefore limiting the post to you computer readers rather than the mobile hand held readers. Secondly a post again to a Facebook application that is hot right now in the public (remember the source of this information is above in the AllFacebook link, and thirdly I send you to a shameless plug of a Facebook page made a few months ago that not a single person has liked becuase I have neither shared it, nor paid for adevertising for likes there.

If I did advertise too, I am not limited to Facebook advertising, I could possibly outsource a few likes of Fivver.com or other outsourcing sites.

Finally in relation to the 90% SEO from two weeks back read on DMoz I would contest this and say blogging with WordPress or any other regular updated blog mechanism is much better and I know this is biased since I a blogger but much more fun, if you agree hit the like button somewhere.

That reminds me don’t forget to hit the like button on the post of the Facebook page you have already liked I am sure to owner of the business will really like that too, its just a shame that videos and images did not alt and load as quick as possible, but compared to the limitations of Classifieds with the limiting of HTML Facebook’s XTML is absolutely fine.

Finally if you are reading this from the APsense Microsoft page the code there for blogs is good too, but again I cannot give enough praise to being lucky enough to attempt good textual content, alt imaging and good old keyword research, long live the longtail and good luck with Facebook and Google +, not forgetting my buddies on Ning pages, have a great weekend and thanks for frequenting Robert-Bridge.mobi.

Related and relevant links in August 2011

• Facebook Issues That Could Cause Problems For Your Business
• Success in small business audios and help from Success Bug.
• Create your own Facebook Gallery video with Intel App.

Structuring your content accessible with your mobile phone or your mobile phone Website is awesome owing to many people are searching for new mobile phones, these trends will not change and the popularity of technology goes up and down. The commercial value of mobile phones is great and is a great link with friends and family. Individuals with mobile phones who are social universal require similar phones. Preeminence of a mobile phone Website is aggregating and the importance of authorial link building is growing. In this answer we will explore the SEO of mobile websites and find out within the link graph of social media and how SEO altercates with mobile phones within social media leverage.

The Art of SEO Link Building in 2010

The first thing about getting traffic to your site is based on the content. Secondly a blog requires some decent use of words, these words depend on what specifically you are explaining in this case we are discussing SEO Text Mobile Content, so by all admissions this would be a good keyword to use. Rather than using one word, using four words is stretching the longtail. The long tail is a keyword that gets less traffic but by all admissions is much easier to rank for long term.

Social Media for a few years now has provided lots of traffic but posting, book marking and pressing like buttons can often be difficult to implement. The good thing is within many plugins you now have the ability to share on Twitter through your mobile phones browsers. Equally many sites that are not mobile enabled although take longer to load have the ability to still share with social media book marking buttons. This although is still restricted by the size of your fingers, some mobile phones you have a little plastic pen to highlight and press buttons, but most mobile smart phones do not, they use thick Teflon screens which never mind the size of your finger are heat enabled to the temperature of your skin. So if we say mobile phones independently do have autonomy they are somewhat restricted within Social media.

Books About Mobile sites and social media

This is why SEO has become so important especially when you understand if you are using mobile plugins you will be restricting your Website design, minimal like a design of a good mobile phone. Search Engine Optimization has many logarithms and as already mentioned one thing that often gets overlooked is social graphing from incoming and outgoing links. It is important if you consider this important to check the ROI of every link you post or receive, for example someone may read your post on the mobile phone and make a post. You can adjust your own links by making it  a No Follow link, you can do this from the link tab and adjust the alt tabs. You can also add tags to images within posts, but this can slow down the load speed of your post especially on mobile phones so having a good server to host your blog or Website is very important. Many people decide to host there Website from there own server and use there home IP address. This can be if you know what you are doing good for bandwidth speed, this can also score you more traffic flowing to your site, but the downside is the more traffic to your self hosted site the slower your computer at home will perform.

A true autonomous mobile Website would be hosted on a mobile phone, the speed of the phone would have to be really fast and we are a long way away from having hand held devices hosting Website although having WI FI is something not everyone has considered yet. Remember self hosting your mobile phone Website should not yet be necessarily hosted on your own IP address which brings into question the hosting IP of Laptops, I tablets and other mobile devices. I am not to sure the ability for these things to be run 24 hrs and I am sure if you have a mobile phone and know anything about batteries the last thing you need is rushing out to a plugin socket to constantly charge up your mobile. So lets get back to SEO.

Everything you need to know about Mobile marketing, Development and optimization

Earlier we covered the long tail of a word, the Long Tail is a derivative of a keyword. The keyword is something you will recognize and many of you will be using suggestive keyword tools, but if you add a keyword and the percentage of times you use the word within the text is not between 1 -3% within your post and that includes being over and under then this could have a negative impact on ranking within the logarithms of the search engine, which means the amount of traffic coming to your site will be low, unless of course you have a huge e-mail list or large sized database that you regularly remind your fans to come along and read. List building is something different although it can add to your SEO. The traffic is monitored from many areas and you should monitor your traffic if you do not already do so with a couple of different tools, the obvious one being Google Analytics. But remember this when ever you borrow script you are giving access to your blog.

A blog can be a hive for many unsavory things, that is why Askimet spam block is in place, but another reason is because incoming links can have positive impacts to your Website attention it does not matter whether it is a mobile site or a normal Website, and for flash sites and other coded Website your ability to restrict this type of unsavory behavior comes into question. By using Word-press you will be able to get the support you need however it can take time navigating your way around the various sites to implement the things you need. This is why people rent special coded templates, and why people like to by blogs that are designed to make implementing SEO on mobile hones a lot easier.