BRIDGET RANDOLPH
5 Ways Your Mobile Strategy
Is Losing You Money
that
of users
won’t recommend a business with a poorly designed mobile site?
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or that
have turned to a
competitor’s site after a bad mobile experience?
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already a
basicrequirement
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for any
online brand.
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and it’s
s
just
getting
BIGGER.
by 2017,
85%of the world’s population
will have 3G coverage.
@BridgetRandolphSource: Ericsson Mobility Report
Facebook’s Internet.org initiative
mobile in 2012 was
12xthe size of
the entire
internetin 2000
@BridgetRandolphSource: Cisco's Global Mobile Data Traffic
Forecast Update
internet in
year 2000
mobile
in
2012
@BridgetRandolphSource: Ericsson Mobility Report (pg. 10)
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Mobile Data Usage
12x growth in 12 years
12x growth in 6 years
2013
so businesses need to be
mobile-friendly.
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the
problem is,
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people are doing it
WRONG.
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BRIDGET RANDOLPH
Online Marketing Consultant, Distilled
[email protected]
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BRIDGET RANDOLPH
5 Ways Your Mobile Strategy
Is Losing You Money
BRIDGET RANDOLPH
(…and what you can do about it)
you don’t have a
mobile-friendly website
only
70% of the
top 20 UK retailers have a mobile-friendly website.
@BridgetRandolphSource: Econsultancy
small businesses are even
less likelyto have a mobile-friendly web presence.
@BridgetRandolph60% of small businesses have websites;
only half of these are mobile-friendly.
and still
more businessescreate a mobile site and forget about it.
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where your online
customers primarily
interact with you
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and remember our
stats from before…
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of users
won’t recommend a business with a poorly designed mobile site
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and
have turned to a
competitor’s site after a bad mobile experience
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But mobile only matters when you’re on the
go, right?
typical CEO
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77% of mobile searches happen near a PC
Source: Google Databoard
if you don’t have a
mobile-friendly website,
you’re leaving money
on the table.
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FIX:make your website
mobile-friendly
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it’s not as hard as you might think.
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main
approaches
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• responsive– rearranges the layout
• dynamic serving– serves different HTML on same URL
• separate mobile subdomain– e.g. m.domain.com
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separate mobile site
dynamic serving:
a cross between the two
choosean approach
based on
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your goals
and technical
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your
users’ needs.
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we did a flowchart for our Best Practice Guide
http://www.distilled.net/training/mobile-seo-guide
for a
small business with a
small website…
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…I’d usually recommend using
a responsive
template,
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and a WYSIWYG
CMS(like Wordpress).
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individual Wordpress themes
• Designfolio (from PressCoders): free, or $79 with support
licence.
• Standard: $49 or $99 with support licence.
• Responsive (from CyberChimps): free.
premium Wordpress theme providers
• Elegant Themes: ~$40/year with full support.
• WooThemes: free-$70.
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or, if you don’t want to use Wordpress:
• SquareSpace: from $8/month (for the most basic service).
• Wix: around $10/month.
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for a larger business
with a larger website,
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dynamic serving based on
user agent.
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does it work?
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case study: O’Neill Clothing
RESULTSon iPhone/iPod
conversions increased by 65.71%.
transactions increased by 112.5%.
revenue increased by 101.25%.
on Android devices
conversions increased by 407.32%.
transactions increased by 333.33%.
revenue increased by 591.42%.
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final
point to
remember:
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a mobile-friendly
website is
NOT a strategy.
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it’s just the
starting point.
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you’re making
technical SEO mistakes
why does technical
SEO matter?
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responsive design?
@BridgetRandolphSEO of Responsive Design by Kristina Kledzik
You don’t need to do
anything extra.
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what if I can’t use a responsive design?
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dynamic serving
Vary HTTP header http://goo.gl/km1qcZ
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separate URLs
There are
several areasto look at.
@BridgetRandolphA Checklist for Optimizing Your Mobile Site
redirects
• redirect mobile users on www.
most relevant mobile page
• redirect desktop users on m.
most relevant desktop page
• allow users to override
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“switchboard tags”
for duplicate content
on the desktop page:
<link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)"
href="http://m.example.com/page-1" >
on the relevant mobile page:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/page-1" >
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site speed
• 2-3 sec is recommended
• needs to be less than 5 sec
Google PageSpeed Insights tool can help
@BridgetRandolph74% of users would bounce after waiting 5 sec
unsupported technology
• don’t use Flash!
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I wrote a whole blog post about it.
http://moz.com/blog/how-to-optimize-a-mobile-site
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and don’t forget about
testing@BridgetRandolph
have you visited
your site on a
mobile?
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testing
USE
Litmus – website testing
Qualaroo – user surveys
CrazyEgg – heat maps
Optimizely – split testing
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your permission-based marketing
isn’t mobile-friendly
it’s not just about
the content ON
your website.
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social media
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social
is a hugechannel for mobile.
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4 out of every 5people who use Facebook
daily access it on a mobile
device
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social marketing
ISmobile marketing.
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anything you want to get shared
has to work on a mobile
…even if it’s an MVP.
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FIXmake your social content
mobile-friendly
@BridgetRandolph80% of Facebook and Twitter’s daily users
are accessing the app from a mobile device
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FIXmake sure your social share
buttons work on mobile
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email marketing
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62% of e-mails are
opened on mobile devices.
@BridgetRandolphSource: US Consumer Device Preference
Report (Q2 2013)
email marketing
ISmobile marketing.
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FIXuse mobile-friendly email
templates
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USE• Campaign Monitor
• MailChimp
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USEtest your email campaigns
with Litmus
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you’re overcomplicating
the checkout process
smarter checkout paths
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Could it be the case that mobile is simply more of a
research platform?
Commenter on a blog post
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My cellphone isn't for buying, fb, amazon - it's just
a phone (or gps) :)
Commenter on a blog post
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WRONG.
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in the retail industry, mobile spend is expected to be
by the end of 2013.
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smarterconversion paths
for mobile.
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Keep
It
Simple
Stupid.@BridgetRandolph
FIXlink the form fields to
the correct keyboard
@BridgetRandolphSmashing Mag article about touch keyboards
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for phone number fields:
<input type="tel" />
for a numeric keyboard, use this:
<input type="text" pattern=“\d*" novalidate />
for any email fields, use this:
<input type="email" />
to disable autocorrect:
<input type="text" autocorrect="off" />
@BridgetRandolphCheat sheet from Baymard
FIXonly ask for information
which is essential
to complete the transaction
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example: Amazon 1 Click
FIXkeep people logged in long-term
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thinking bigger biometric tech
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example: Apple Store
FIXdon’t neglect microconversions
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…like
social shares and
email signups
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you’re not tracking
cross-device and cross-channel
track the
person,
not the device
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PROBLEM:
tracking each visit separately
isn’t accurate
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Visit-Based Tracking
User-Based Tracking
user-based tracking:
tracking each step of the
customer journey
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FIXset up Universal Analytics
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(how does it work?)
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but all of these are
just examples
the point
really is…
stop treating mobile
as a separate channel
of
mobile searches
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in some ways,
it’s just
another
‘browser’.
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you need a
mobile-friendly
website
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if it’s a
separate website,
remember to check
the technical stuff
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always test
your site
across devices
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permission-based
marketing
needs to be
mobile-friendly too
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make mobile checkout
EASY
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track
people, not
devices
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mobile
isn’t separate anymore.
Thanks.Any questions?
BRIDGET RANDOLPH
[email protected]
@BridgetRandolph
image credits
girl on couch: http://images.smh.com.au/2013/07/27/4608179/Dan-20130727185724263940-
620x349.jpg
baby of Obama/Chewbacca morph: http://www.morphthing.com/baby/3532403-Baby-of-Barack-
Obama-and-Chewbacca
KISS: http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/filepicker/HTUUgGMnQ4CgAJoOKb0w_kiss.jpg
multi-device path to purchase: http://marketingland.com/study-90-percent-use-multiple-screens-
throughout-the-same-day-20386
mobile overtaking desktop graph: ComScore study;
image credit http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/4fda47c569beddef0b000003-960/comscore-
mobile-users-desktop-users-2014.jpg