Redirection Of Mobile Traffic
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Hi,
I hope someone can help me with this, we have been working on creating a mobile version of our website, but does anyone know of a way of ensuring that mobile traffic is redirect to our mobile version, ie m.mydomain.com
Thanks
Rich
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Might I suggest using screen size or user agent to trigger the option to the user something like:
"We've detected that you may be using a mobile device. Would you like to go to our mobile friendly site instead?"
Research shows giving folks a choice results in a better experience. Nothing more annoying that not having the choice, especially considering the wide array of screen sizes that are now being used. The live site may be more user friendly and you'll also get some valuable feedback on how popular you mobile site is.
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I don't think you should do it by screen size.
If you're using Wordpress, then install W3 Total Cache.
Among MANY other essential things, it will allow you redirect visitors based on user-agent to EITHER:
1. another theme that's better suited to particular sets of users (for example, one wordpress theme for mobile, and one for tablets, one specially for iOS devices, etc).
2. or set it to "pass through" so you can handle mobile management with another plugin like "Mobile Smart", which i use.
3. or set it redirect to m.domain.com which is what you want.
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Thanks for the advice, I will look at the header redirect. @istvan I am using wordpress.
Thanks
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use a redirect in the header based on pixel width of their screen. So if it's <800 it can redirect to your mobile site.
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Hi Rich,
On what kind of platform do you have your website?
Gr.,
Istvan
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