Make Your Website Mobile-Friendly with Google’s GoMo
Mobile, mobile, mobile. Everyone’s talking about it, and a growing number of people are using mobile to surf the web.
That poses a problem.
You don’t have the time or money to build a mobile version of your site. But you don’t want to slap an ugly mobile-friendly template on your site, either. What to do?
I recently found myself in this situation. According to Google Analytics, 10 percent of my web traffic comes from a mobile device – and that number is rising. But when viewed on the small screen of an iPhone, my site becomes unreadable.
I searched the web for a fix, but couldn’t find a good solution. Then a coworker recommended GoMo, Google’s answer to mobile websites.
For those who don’t have a smartphone, GoMo lets you view your site as seen on mobile.
Don’t like what you see? Build a mobile version of your site using one of GoMo’s customizable templates. You can choose a color scheme, upload a custom header and even add content such as mobile maps, Google AdSense and a click-to-call option.
Once you’ve settled on a design, simply upload the DudaMobile plugin to your site. It will then automatically redirect mobile users to the new mobile version of your site.
After you’ve finished, you can go back and tweak the design, or view or site on popular mobile devices.
After the first year, a subscription to GoMo costs $9/month, or $108/year. That’s not bad, considering the cost of building a new mobile site could easily top four figures.
Building my site in GoMo took half an hour from start to finish, and so far I’m happy with the results. Do you have a mobile website? If so, how did you create it? Let me know in the comments section!
4 Responses to Make Your Website Mobile-Friendly with Google’s GoMo
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Already hooked…. thanks Kelly!
Fantastic Post Kelly! I just got a flyer from Google this week, then I read your post, and I’m loving this software from Google. What an incredible tool this is. Very user friendly so far… I’m only at Step 2 of 4, and I’m really enjoying putting my mobile site together.
Thanks for tweeting this, since I spotted it in your twitter feed this afternoon.
What huge savings this offers us. We estimated it was going to cost over $2000 to build a mobile version of our site.
Cheers,
Elizabeth
Thanks, Elizabeth! I’m enjoying it as well. I love getting the weekly email updates telling me how many people have accessed my site on mobile — it’s a nice little perk.
Can’t believe I am only just hearing about the gomo from google, it seems like it works fantastic for converting sites to be mobile optimised. Hopefully google don’t do their usual and end up stop developing and supporting it 6 months down the line.