The Pros and Cons of Optimizing For Mobile

Last month I run a poll on my blog and asking the people that can America could be stopped from attacking any other Muslim county?
The results were what I expected. The audience here is made of bloggers and a large number of people vote for yes, and they want that America should must be stopped from any further attacks.
I also run a poll about the optimizing for mobile. It was an email, that encouraged me to run that poll, from my reader and he was complaining about the lack of a mobile version of my website. Before running this poll I wanted to collect more data before making a decision. After getting some information about this I run this poll which gains a lot of encouragement for me. So will I create a mobile friendly version now that I have some numbers? Probably no, and that is because I still think the cons of doing so out-weight the pros.
Consider that a mobile version of a blog is usually a screen which displays only the content of the posts, much like an RSS reader. The pros of using it are:

• The user can read your latest posts more easily.
• The readers can read your post in a better way and its readability is better.
• The pages might load faster as compared to others.

And the cons:

• It becomes difficult and harder to find content other than the latest posts.
• The branding/visual aspect is lost.
• The user has less control regarding how to navigate the site.
• The user won’t see parts of your website that might be important like ads, subscription forms and so on.

If your website is relatively clean, though, and you consider that most smart phones are coming out with decent screen resolutions, you’ll see that the pros of using a mobile friendly version become less important. For example, many readers commented on my blog that this site displays fine on the iPhone 4, and that they don’t have problems reading the content or browsing around.
So in my opinion optimizing for the early mobile devices could have made a big difference, but there weren’t many people using them anyway, so you could skip it. In present, there are a large number of peoples that are accessing the Internet via mobile devices, but most of these devices feature good screen resolutions, allowing the users to browse websites normally. As a result, optimizing for mobile might not be that important anymore.
As I suggest that it is true, at least, for content based websites. But for service oriented ones like a social network or an online store, mobile optimization might be more critical.

Poll: Do You Browse Regularly Using A Mobile Device?

In addition to other advantages, poll plays an important roll in increasing the traffic of a website. When you provide an opportunity to your readers about a specific issue, they take interest and also inform other people, like his friends, family members, and his relatives etc to give vote on this issue. In this article I am going to share my personal story about poll, and how I started poll on my blog. In fact a few days ago a reader sent me an email saying I should create a mobile version of my blog, because it was not looking very user friendly on his iPhone.
In fact the issue was serious and it also caught my attention very seriously. As a result it compelled me to know what percentage of our readers regularly browse the web using a mobile device, hence the poll.
By the way, by regularly I mean pretty much daily, and not once in a while. The poll will continue to run until next Sunday. After that I’ll publish the results on the next monday. My question in that poll will be as follow,
Do you Brows the web regularly using a mobile device? You can also create your own poll by clicking on the link Create Your Own Poll