My 4-year old project to keep an updated list of useful mobile websites continues to draw a decent amount of traffic (somewhere between 1000 and 2000 page views per day). I’ve also managed to reach the top search result for “mobile websites” on both Google and Live.com. (Yahoo and Ask are not keeping up…come on guys!) This week I’m migrating the list from its current home on “www.cantoni.org/palm” to a new domain “cantoni.mobi”. Tonight I have the new domain up and running and tomorrow I’ll start redirecting the old traffic. Hopefully I’ll be able to follow the standard advice for…
Yesterday (October 20th), we here in the South end of the San Francisco Bay Area had a moderate 5.6 earthquake (officially designated by the USGS as event nc40204628). We were fine, even if the kids were a little rattled. (I had to explain to them that earthquakes are part of living in California.) I tried to call my parents to see if they felt it, but got the dreaded “all circuits are busy” on our standard AT&T line. Not too surprising. What surprised me was that my Sprint mobile was also not working, but rather than a decent message, it…
AdMob is an up and coming mobile advertising platform, supporting both the advertisers and publishers (including my Mobile Website list). AdMob is in a unique position given they serve millions of ads to mobile devices each day. Today they published a summary report of some metrics from September 2007: AdMob Mobile Metrics is a new report with market level data. This initial report covers the month of September and includes manufacturer, device and country-specific data on AdMob’s top four markets by impressions served: US, UK, India and South Africa. In the future, we plan to add operator data and incremental…
I’ve been running Google AdSense on both my main blog and my mobile website list for almost 4 years now. I don’t get enough traffic to earn anything significant, but it does cover my hosting costs each year. With the recent increase in traffic to my mobile site, I decided to give Admob a try and so far it’s going great. Two weeks into the switch, everything is up, including clicks, click rate and revenue. Previously I was using traditional Google Adsense with the 125×125 button. Because it was so big (for a mobile page), I positioned it at the…
Update: For the most current data (all of 2008), please see Top Mobile Websites for 2008. With a recent spike in interest in my mobile website list, I wanted to take a look at the most popular links. For the past 8 months, I’ve been using MyBlogLog to help capture not just page views, but keeping track of which links are the most popular. I haven’t had a chance to dig deeper into the community aspects of MyBlogLog, but the Javascript click tracking is very helpful. It won’t track any mobile browsers for which Javascript is disabled or not present,…