Businesses without mobile sites are facing a major challenge

Google I/O mobile sites

Mobile sites are becoming mandatory to rank high on Google’s search engine The lack of mobile websites could lead to a significant business loss for many companies. Google has made changes to its search algorithm in order to better rank websites that are mobile friendly. If websites do not meet Google’s new standards, they will be ranked lower in searches. Google is attempting to place greater focus on the mobile space, largely due to the growing population of mobile consumers throughout the world. 44% of large companies do not comply…

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Mobile Commerce website loading times are slowing

Mobile Commerce

This could be problematic as even one tenth of a second can make a difference to conversion rates. Keynote Systems has released its latest report that has shown that the websites that are included in the company’s Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index are experiencing slower load times. The speed of the company’s own site will load at an average rate of 5.54 seconds. There are thirty retailers included in the index, and the average load time for mobile commerce sites had been 8.36 during the week ending October 14, it…

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Mobile websites are beginning to look identical to consumers

mcommerce websites

Many wonder why mobile sites that have been optimized for smartphones all look the same. Websites that have been optimized for mobile commerce or sometimes referred to as the mobile web, are beginning to suffer from a cookie cutter effect and consumers are starting to notice and wonder why. The key to the problem is that the entire channel has only been in existence for a very short time. Mcommerce as a whole has only come into its own over the last two years. This has not given marketers a great…

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How retailers are taking their first steps into the mobile commerce world

Mobile-Commerce

When new technology comes into common use, it isn’t always obvious how it should best be used, and mobile commerce is no exception, but retailers – both online and in actual physical space – have been making their first attempts at using smartphones and tablets to their best advantage, each in their own ways. Retailers weren’t typically a part of the first wave of commerce. There were a few trailblazers, but other than that, mobile devices weren’t at all a part of their strategies, especially among those who weren’t online…

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Commerce has gone mobile and it’s time to join in

Mobile Commerce

Mobile commerce for every business type budget Though there continues to be an increasing amount of attention paid to online commerce, many companies are overlooking the true trend that is currently in the middle of an explosion, and that is mobile. It seems that with every passing day, consumers are being provided with a new way to use their devices to enhance their mobile shopping experience, whether that be by scanning a QR code on a bus shelter or magazine ad, performing a price comparison with a specialized app, downloading…

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