These days a lot of people are using their mobile phones, PDAs and iPhones to surf the web. So more and more people are actually looking for just your fantastic content with handheld devices, but can they find your content?

If you got a blog in Wordpress it's actually easy to make a mobile version of your blog. You don't really need to to that much work at all, just install a plugin and all your blog posts will be available in a mobile format for smaller screens.

I for example found a good plugin I like. It's called wp-pda and will be installed in just a few seconds (no settings to change, just plug it in).

To install the plugin you just upload the files in your plugin directory and you're ready to go. Once you've activated your plugin anyone visiting your blog with mobile phone, PDA or iPhone will see your content in a stripped down version.

The best part of this plugin is that you don't have to tell your visitors a new URL just for the mobile blog. They simply just visit the same URL they always do when they want your content

What I don't like is that the visitors see the normal blog page when they click on a link in your mobile version I hope that's just a settings problem or something and that it will be corrected in future versions. I also need to figure out how Google and the other search engines will find the new mobile version and redirect the searchers to that page instead of the normal blog. I guess you should be able to use the mobile sitemaps in Google somehow.

Does anyone know if Google is using another user agent for their spider when it's looking for mobile content?

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