{"id":1469,"date":"2017-08-01T04:35:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T11:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2017-08-01T23:16:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T06:16:22","slug":"what-is-a-matching-mobile-site-and-how-to-get-one-easily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/1469\/what-is-a-matching-mobile-site-and-how-to-get-one-easily\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a matching mobile site and how to get one easily?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobile-friendly-website-builder-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"mobile friendly website builder\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobile-friendly-website-builder-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobile-friendly-website-builder-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mobile-friendly-website-builder.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 75vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">NOTE:<\/span> If you are here looking for a dating site to use on your mobile, this isn&#8217;t the topic, but we know a great one for you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsmatchme.com\">Friends Match Me<\/a>! \u00a0It&#8217;s built on UltimateWB software, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/1450\/build-smartphone-apps-that-work-with-your-website\/\">iPhone\/iPad and Android apps<\/a>, and it is the 100% totally free dating app!<\/p>\n<p>First there was the desktop, then the laptop, and now the go-to is\u00a0the smartphone. \u00a0Not just now, but more like from a couple years ago the trend has been going strong. \u00a0Use of smartphones for the internet is at such a high that if you have a website for your business, organization, cause, or hobby &#8211; if you want your website to be found and be used &#8211; you need to make sure you have a &#8220;matching mobile site&#8221;. \u00a0Short answer on what this means is that it is a mobile version of your website, for visitors to your website that are on their smartphones, rather on a desktop, latop, or even tablet.<\/p>\n<p>    <picture>\n                <img src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-top-search-engine-ranking-factors.jpg\"\n             srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-top-search-engine-ranking-factors.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-top-search-engine-ranking-factors-150x150.jpg 150w\"             sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 75vw, 1200px\"\n             width=\"300\"\n             height=\"300\"\n             alt=\"Google Top Search Engine Ranking Factors\"\n             loading=\"lazy\"             decoding=\"async\"\n             class=\"alignleft\" >\n    <\/picture>\n    A couple of years ago\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/1072\/google-to-favor-mobile-friendly-websites-in-search-starting-tuesday\/\">Google announced that it would favor mobile friendly websites in its search algorithm<\/a>. \u00a0So there&#8217;s one good reason right there to have a matching mobile site: to\u00a0make sure you get a top Google search engine ranking and\u00a0get found. \u00a0A really, really good reason for a mobile version of your website, and also really the reason for Google&#8217;s announcement, is that you want to keep your visitors on your website to interact &#8211; not to leave right away because they can&#8217;t navigate on their phones due to the menu not being mobile friendly, or the font\u00a0being too small to read on their smaller screen size without zooming in\/out and scrolling from side to side.<\/p>\n<p>The easiest way &#8211; and best way &#8211; for your website to have a matching mobile site is to make it <strong>mobile friendly<\/strong> and <strong>responsive<\/strong>, with <strong>fluid design<\/strong>. \u00a0That means that your website design and formatting changes automatically depending on the user&#8217;s device, more specifically their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">screen size<\/span>. \u00a0<strong>Ultimate Web Builder makes this easy with the built-in Responsive App<\/strong>. \u00a0Having a responsive website is so important that the UltimateWB Responsive App is available in ALL\u00a0of UltimateWB software versions. \u00a0With this app you can customize when your website menu collapses to a single menu button, when left\/right side contents expand to a 100% width, when fonts should display larger&#8230;and more, with suggestions on the configuration setting values to use. \u00a0With many\u00a0of the websites built on Ultimate Web Builder software, with one click on the Styles Manager to turn the Responsive App on, without changing any of the default settings, your website can be responsive and ready for the mobile users! \u00a0Matching mobile site, check!<\/p>\n<p>You can test out how your website looks on various devices on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/responsive-check-tool\">Responsive Check Tool<\/a>, available under the Resources section!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: If you are here looking for a dating site to use on your mobile, this isn&#8217;t the topic, but we know a great one for you, Friends Match Me! \u00a0It&#8217;s built on UltimateWB software, with iPhone\/iPad and Android apps, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/1469\/what-is-a-matching-mobile-site-and-how-to-get-one-easily\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,781],"tags":[440,941,942,940,738,690,693],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-design","category-website-traffic","tag-fluid-design","tag-google-search-engine-ranking","tag-increase-website-traffic","tag-matching-mobile-site","tag-mobile-friendly","tag-responsive-app","tag-responsive-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1488,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}