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Is this a new feature? If so, this will be a much-welcomed addition. I've been wondering how to monetize on mobile traffic. I hope there are enough advertisers so that the content will be relevant.
Has anyone tried this? If so, what is your experience with this program?
I asked Google for WAP software and downloaded
[wap-proof.com...]
After installing the software, a window opened,
the left part showed a mobile phone
I used bookmarks to visit google.com
I tried to enter a query, I discovered how after several minutes.
The second answer from google.com was a wikipedia page.
I selected this search result and got a warning message
"This page is not designed for a mobile device
do You want to ignore this warning"
I ignored and was on a wikipedia page shown in a 174x152 huge screen.
That's total different from what I thought.
I thought Google would return only pages optimized for mobile devices.
So I am now total confused about this
I think you have to visit the mobile version of Google which should be [mobile.google.com;<...]Yust tired it. There is a screen with several options.
I tried the first option google search....
....and was at the same search page as before.
289.864 visitors used 381 different screen resolutions
24. 640x480 86 0,03%
That's the smalles resolution what I find usefull for a web site
30. 240x320 56 0,02%
33. 240x160 48 0,02%
40. 480x272 32 0,01%
68. 240x140 7
69. 480x640 7
95. 176x220 4
122. 640x400 3
169. 640x200 2
345. 176x208 1
352. 234x282 1
353. 234x292 1
358. 256x384 1
363. 320x320 1
365. 352x416 1
369. 480x536 1
370. 635x510 1
So when I count only smaller than 640 width resolutions,
that are 165 from 289.864 visitors. 0,05%
So when I count only smaller than 640 width resolutions, that are 165 from 289.864 visitors. 0,05%
I'm not sure if you are saying that it's almost insignificant at this point or not. I had not really paid much attention to the mobile side of things until august. The short story is that I walked into the ocean with my 4 year old cell phone in my trunks (should have gone to a clothing optional beach)..
Anyway, I had to replace my phone. The new phone had a promo for web access for one month free. I tried it and upgraded to a 'candy bar' style phone. For $15 bucks a month, I get unlimited web accesss (that does not go against my plan minutes. )
As I've been playing with it, I see an enormous utility for phone web (I know a lot of people knew this a couple of years ago. sometimes I"m behind the power curve).
I"m trying to get up to speed on this for a couple of reasons.
1. I think there will be an exponential increase in cell phone web use. I have no idea what the doubling period will be at this point.
2. Right now, most of my sites will show up on phones, but without ads. I'm trying to get moving in a direction to monetize phone visitors.
Anyway, I appreciate your posting those stats. As far as I know, your sites are getting a lot more traffic than mine. I think the .05 would probably hold true for me as well. That tells me I have some time to get things moving in a mobile direction.
cg
There have been a couple of threads talking about people turning javascript off and therefore not getting served the adsense ads (for regular sites)
I'm hoping that if the mobile/php solution works, google will consider migrating that to the non mobile side. I know some sites are hosted without access to php, but it might be nice to have the option to serve adsense from php instead of javascript.
cg
My first thought was:
There are different search results for mobile pages
I program my CMS to create from all my pages a mobile version
But there are the same search results for mobile.
BTW, I was until now not able to scroll horizontal with the mobilie phone simulator.
Maybe mobile devices with GPS.
For example I make a page from a memorial,
a tourist with a mobile device comes to the memorial, search results sorted by distance.
My page comes first, because he stands 5m in front of the memorial,
so his position and the position of my page point of interest are very close together.
He looks on my page and AdSense sends an add from a restaurant in the next street.
I have a 468x60 text only adsense ad that i'd swap in a moment but it's placed on the site using css. The mobile adsense code ignores css width and div parameters and stretches itself out to where I don't want it OR gets cut off and stays where I want it. There is currently no way to chose width/size directly from the adsense panel yet. (that i've been able to find)
The second issue i'm finding for my site is the actual phone number that appears on mobile ads. On a mobile phone thats great but on a regular computer it eliminates the need to click through the ad. Again, no option for the number to show only on a cell phone.
Idealy Google doesn't leave us hanging here, they fix the product instead of forcing webmasters to have multiple copies of pages etc.
I'd like to see the AdSense control panel offer an option to show mobile ads only on mobile phones and leave normal ads intact otherwise. Perhaps a webmaster tool can be created to check for mobile compatibility too.
WordPress and phpBB are compatible with mobile, any chance existing adsense ads are made compatible too?
i have a mobile ready directory, which serves all the three content as per phones request, WML/ xHTML/ cHTML on the same URL.
to add to the problem, it is smarty driven,..... so how do i add adsense php code to smarty,
content type i can put in aan if-else construct! but Smarty!
:confused:
M.
Did your friend received the funds for the other mobile devices that generated clicks to his site?
Asinah
Asinah, he didn't receive any funds. From what he told me they left no room for a conversation - the account was closed and that was that.
i did try Google ad sense to 2 of my wap sites , but sadly i couldnt generate the relevant traffic i was looking for. My wap sites are focussed to India at the moment and Google ad sense doesn't seem to work very well here.
However, i did find couple of companies in India who seem to have generated quiet a hype in the market for delivering target relevant ads to mobile wap sites and following it up with good traffic.
And one of them , Zestadz, seem to have to got their act right! I tried using their platform and it worked as soon as my WAP site got the registration confirmed by the company. It kinda took 15 min after I got the registration approval, for the first ads to appear. At first the ads were sporadic but once the traffic became more focused and relevant I also started getting relevant ads consistently.
i wonder when Google will make the ad sense in mobile function without any glitches in India.
