Re: Make your site mobile friendly before April 21
I switched a couple of sites I got over to a responsive design a few months ago. Mobile se traffic went up dramatically on one of them. Pre responsive template mobile constituted maybe 30% of my total traffic on this particular site, its now around 60%. Looks great on my analytics but is it me or is this traffic basically shit? That and going “responsive” I quickly realized all those iframes I used for dating and cams that actually did make money must now be sacrificed. Yay! And before the program reps start slamming their cocks on their keyboards, I’ve tried all your mobile sites, put your dicks back in your pants.
I understand mobile is only going to increase so for now I just sit back and watch my mobile traffic grow, pad my analytics, and hope a better way to monetize it comes along.
Re: Make your site mobile friendly before April 21
I couldn’t agree more… Who in the their right mind is going to pay for porn on a tiny cell phone??? Even if you have one of those big ass Samsung phones you still can’t see shit worth jacking off too…
Now tablet traffic, that I can see converting.
Can you go back through your stats and see which type of traffic increased the most (cell vs tablet)? I’m wondering if Google considers them both mobile even though tablets don’t need a scaled down site seeing as the majority of them have the same resolution as desktops.
Re: Make your site mobile friendly before April 21
[QUOTE=mountequinox;157315]I couldn’t agree more… Who in the their right mind is going to pay for porn on a tiny cell phone??? Even if you have one of those big ass Samsung phones you still can’t see shit worth jacking off too…
Now tablet traffic, that I can see converting.
Can you go back through your stats and see which type of traffic increased the most (cell vs tablet)? I’m wondering if Google considers them both mobile even though tablets don’t need a scaled down site seeing as the majority of them have the same resolution as desktops.
Re: Make your site mobile friendly before April 21
NO ONE - College kids jerking off in the men’s room between classes are not buying memberships to sites to login…navigate via shitty navigation systems…search for a clip to watch and then beat their meat.
They are going to have a couple of 2 minutes clips saved on their phone to watch and get off.
When they really have some time to kill jerking off back at the dorm they will use their laptops for a decent image size and have plenty of time to search tubes for something to bust a nut to.
Trust me…Google is not pushing mobile for help out porn sites/producers! BUT since they are the biggest kids in the sandbox we all have to play by their rules or get lost in the crowd (like that’s not going to happen anyway)!
Re: Make your site mobile friendly before April 21
I am hoping that by getting in Google’s good graces with mobile that I will be rewarded with better rankings overall. I also figure that at least some of this mobile se traffic will at some point translate into a dude going home and jumping on his desktop/laptop and returning to the site.
Re: Make your site mobile friendly before April 21
That brings up an interesting question, for me anyhow.
Say one does go to a site, checks out on his tablet or mobile, then does as you say, goes home and jumps on his laptop, but will he go to your blog, or will he type in the site name now, and sign up? If he does the latter, once again you did the job, but unless he goes to your blog first, you get nada in the way of referral.
Kind of makes me want to make the mobile version look like shit, and let them find it on a device that will allow them to enjoy the site, and let us get the commission. Seems to me, we are shooting outselves in the foot, by having sites mobile friendly. Tablets I can see, one can enjoy a video and pics on a tablet, but a cell phone? Not with my eyes that’s for sure.
Re: Make your site mobile friendly before April 21
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Say one does go to a site, checks out on his tablet or mobile, then does as you say, goes home and jumps on his laptop, but will he go to your blog, or will he type in the site name now, and sign up? If he does the latter, once again you did the job, but unless he goes to your blog first, you get nada in the way of referral[/QUOTE]
Never thought of that… Very good point in deed.
I’d put money on your line of though. They just come home and Google up the name of the sponsors site after we pushed it to them on their mobile device.
Re: Make your site mobile friendly before April 21
[QUOTE=Gaystoryman;157348]That brings up an interesting question, for me anyhow.
Say one does go to a site, checks out on his tablet or mobile, then does as you say, goes home and jumps on his laptop, but will he go to your blog, or will he type in the site name now, and sign up? If he does the latter, once again you did the job, but unless he goes to your blog first, you get nada in the way of referral.
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Good point. I am guilty of this myself. I personally hate trying to shop via my phone, annoys the hell out of me. I’ll wait until I am in front of my desktop/laptop before ordering anything other than Uber rides etc. But I think that I am probably dating myself in that regard.
My wife on the other hand seemingly can’t order enough shit via her phone.
Re: Make your site mobile friendly before April 21
I’m updating mine at the moment to make a mobile version. Hate the look and doubt it will get any more sales, but I guess we need to appease the google to avoid downgrading.
Re: Make your site mobile friendly before April 21
They way I read the quote that started this thread
Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search results.
If you don’t upgrade by the 21st you may loose mobile traffic seeing as your site has been flagged as non mobile friendly…
I’m not so sure that’s a bad thing really from an affiliates perspective if we can’t get it to convert anyway?
Question is can we make money from the mobile traffic to make it worth our bandwidth and effort?
Re: Make your site mobile friendly before April 21
In Google Webmaster Tools I’m seeing tons of errors under Mobile Usability > Flash usage detected yet if I check any of those URL’s on Google Mobile Friendly Test Page they pass as mobile friendly… A bit contradictory to say the least? Same company, two different tools… One showing Mobile Usability errors do to Flash usage detected and One saying everything is all good.
Anyone else seeing this and what do you take from it? Should I be more concerned with what Webmaster Tools is showing or the Google Mobile Friendly test page?
