Mobile friendly websites are essential to grow your online business.

Viewing mobile friendly websites on devices like Smartphones is now commonplace. iPhone visitors for example, can be as high as 90% of total views. Cafes and restaurants experience this rate. Ask your webmaster what the figure is for your website.

More importantly, you should know how long these visitors are spending on your site. In many cases, it is less than 10 seconds.  Which means that the visitor has no interest to continue. Perhaps they can’t view or navigate your site properly. As a result, they leave without exploring further. This is called a “bounce”.

A website with lots of traffic and “hits” is considered successful. What however, if most of those hits are bounces? It means wasted opportunity!

Also consider that Google will penalise your site if it is not mobile friendly. The penalty is in the form of reduced ranking. That means other businesses will list before yours. The reasoning is that google want to show effective sites first. Thus giving the prospective customer a more satisfactory result.

Design a mobile friendly website that will help increase the conversion rate of your mobile visitors.

The most important element here is a responsive web design. That means designing a website that easily adapts to all devices. So to clarify, your website should be as easy to view on a small screen as on standard desktop. Therefore, be mobile friendly and increase your sales potential.

People like to order on the go. Consider this, add a Shopping Cart to your website. Our shopping cart sites are all optimised for mobile devices. Conversely, have the Shopping Cart a stand alone website. No need to have two hosting fees. And also, just one site to maintain. If you’re hungry for an example,.see this Online Shop we made.

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