Is Your Blog Mobi Ready?

Mobile devices continue to catch on in popularity and may someday match or even surpass personal computer usage. Accessing the internet is easy with many of the PDAs (personal digital assistants) currently available, including such hand held devices as Blackberry, iPhone, Treo, iPod, to name a few. Even if you don’t own a PDA, some of the visitors to your WordPress blog could be finding your site with a mobile unit.

So, the question for you today is this: is your blog mobi ready?

Chances are it isn’t, but thanks to a simple little WordPress plug-in you can make your blog mobi ready without resorting to purchasing a *mobi extension.

Andy Moore developed a plug-in which, when activated, can make your blog easily readable with a PDA. The WordPress Mobile Plugin is something I discovered when a client asked me if his two blogs were mobile readable (they were not) and what we could do to make it so. Googling for that answer I came across Andy Moore’s plugin.

I don’t own a PDA, so confirming any blog as being mobi compliant can only be done with an emulator. Try the tool before downloading and activating the plugin and then come back and take a second look once you’re ready to roll. You’ll see the difference, observing your blog the exact same way that people with a PDA see it — a nifty tool that goes hand in hand with the plugin.

I hate to lose customers and/or visitors to this blog. Now that I know that the plug-in works and that the emulator confirms this, I can reach more people than ever before. If you aren’t mobi ready, then the competition already has a leg up on you.