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Is Your Voice Over Talent Website Mobile-Friendly?

If you are a working voice over talent, you know it’s imperative that you have your own personal website to showcase your talent. Everybody knows that, right? But did you know that your site’s “mobile-friendliness” is going to become a more and more important factor when it comes to your search ranking and visitor interactions?

Is Your Voice Over Talent Website Mobile Friendly?With the state of technology today, just having a voice over talent website isn’t enough. It also needs to be easily viewed on mobile devices.

Failing to address this aspect of your web design is likely going to hurt your search results at some point in the very near future (“Does Not Having a Mobile Site Affect Your SEO?”) as well as cause issues for your visitors when they can’t access your demos or get the information they need to determine if they’d like to hire you.

What a bummer it would be to spend of the time, effort and expense to get visitors to your website, only to have them leave immediately simply because they can’t access your site on their smartphone or tablet.

If your site isn’t easy to read, or the features aren’t working as they were intended, or visitors can’t listen to your demos quickly… They are going to bounce, and move on to the next voice over talent website on the list. Opportunity (and potential income) is lost, just like that.

How Many Voice Over Talent Searches Are Now Initiated From Smartphones?

According to the January 2014 Pew Internet Research Project, 90% of Americans have a cell phone and almost 60% of American adults have a smartphone.

A solid 60% of adult cell phone users access the internet from their phones.

If you’d like to know how many of your visitors are accessing your voice over talent website via a smartphone, you can get a pretty good idea of that number in your Google Analytics account. I just looked at the past month’s data for my site, and 40% of new users were on mobile devices (30% smartphones, 10% tablets).

On a side note, if you haven’t yet set up Google Analytics for your website, do yourself a HUGE favor and get it done ASAP. There are plenty of articles online that can walk you through the process, or just use Google’s step-by-step checklist. You might need some help from your web designer to get the GA tracking code installed, but if your site is on WordPress, that step will be a breeze! My site is still in HTML so when I set this up originally I had to copy and paste the tracking code into every page manually (eventually I just put it in my footer section so that it would appear on every page). It took a little time but it was easy to do and totally worth the effort!

There’s An Easy Way to Test Your Voice Over Talent Website For Mobile

Just this morning I learned about this Mobile-Friendly Test created by Google. You can plug in your voice over talent website URL and get it analyzed quickly to find out if your site is indeed, mobile-friendly.

Give it a try right now and find out if your website is mobile-friendly. Please tell me what result you got in the comments section below. We can do a little informal survey.

If your website passes the test, then you can rest easy knowing that you are in good shape when it comes increased traffic from mobile users.

If your voice over talent website doesn’t pass the test, there are a few things you’ll want to consider:

You will probably need to redesign your site a bit to make it more mobile-friendly.

Currently, there are two common ways to go when it comes to upgrading for a more mobile-friendly design:

1. Create a separate mobile website that is designed specifically for mobile devices.

OR

2. Redesign with a “responsive design”, which will allow you to have just one site to manage and it will configure automatically to adapt to whatever device is being used to view it.

You can do a little research on this topic and get a good understanding of the pros and cons of both approaches (“The Pros and Cons of Responsive Web Design vs. Mobile Website“). I recommend you read several articles and talk to your web designer.

My Voice Over Site Needed an Upgrade This Year

I went through this process myself a few months ago. I had my designer create a mobile version of my site back in 2010 but it was not quite up to snuff for 2014. So, I had it redesigned again this year. You can check it out from your mobile device (just search for Debbie Grattan on your mobile browser) or from your desktop computer.

If you do take a spin through my site, please let me know what your experience was like and if you encountered any issues along the way. User experiences can vary a bit depending on what device is being used to view the site so it’s important to test it on several different platforms (iphone, android, windows phone, various tablets, etc.).

I opted to create a separate mobile site that looked like my desktop voice over talent website, but was streamlined and built more for speed. My regular site has a lot more text than the mobile version and by creating the separate mobile site, I had total control of how the site would look on a smartphone.

I’m actually planning another redesign in 2015 to move to a totally responsive design. That seems to be a better way to go for many business owners, including voice over talents, since it is generally easier to manage one site than two. More on that in the coming months.

Please share your comments below. Is your website passing the mobile-friendly test?

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When Your Voice-Over Website Keyword Search Rankings Go Missing

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I’ve been observing some interesting shifting in my Google, Bing and Yahoo rankings over the past few months. Most notably, I experienced a big drop in Google for one of my core voice-over website keyword phrases, while seeing some equally big gains in Bing and Yahoo across many different keyword groups. I have been working on getting that core phrase back to page one for several weeks now and I do hope and expect we’ll be able to do that soon.

when voice-over website search rankings go missingIn the process of reviewing my search engine rankings, I noticed how highly some of my other platforms are appearing, even when my personal website can seem rather incognito at times.

My Linkedin profile is pretty heavily optimized and I’m really glad to see such a positive result from the necessary time and energy I took to do that. I see my name coming up frequently due to my Linkedin profile, and often it appears on page one. Of course, Youtube videos are a huge help and I’ve optimized over 200 of those during the past few years, so they’re just politely hanging out there in cyberspace, popping up repeatedly in various searches. Then there’s my Facebook profile, which also can pull some decent rankings for certain keywords.

Optimizing Beyond Your Voice-Over Website Can Be a Huge Help

This situation shows me the importance of being optimized across several platforms, besides just my own voice-over website. If I was relying on just my website alone, I’d be feeling a lot more pain right now, while I’m waiting for things to get back on track.

The latest addition to the mix is a reworking of my Thumbtack profile. This most recent round of search rank checking was the first time I saw Thumbtack profiles appearing highly ranked in searches, so I took notice and did some dusting off of my Thumbtack voice-over profile, which I quite frankly had kind of forgotten about. I linked up several video samples and did some Q&A postings (I really like that feature). I’m not sure if I’ll get any work opportunities from this platform, but I’d be happy just to see my profile popping up in relevant searches. Just one more way to get my name in front of people and hopefully encourage them to check out my voice over website.

So, the take-away lesson is, spread your search engine optimization out on many platforms, so you always have some visibility on the web regardless of what your personal website is doing!

Debbie Grattan as been working as a professional voice over talent since the late 90′s. She has collaborated on thousands of projects and teamed up with hundreds of production companies, marketing and advertising firms, commercial voice over recording studios and corporate/business clients around the United States and throughout the world. Listen to her Voice Over Talent Demos and request a Voice Over Services Quote for your upcoming project on her voice-over website.

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Debbie Grattan is a top-rated professional female voice over talent with more than 22 years of experience delivering voice over services worldwide. She regularly records commercial voice overs for radio and tv as well as infomercial voice overs and direct response marketing for children’s toys, health, fitness and beauty products. Other specialties include female narration voice overs for corporate narration, web videos, tutorials, explainer videos and technical medical narration. Debbie also provides phone-related voice over services including phone prompts, messages-on-hold and outbound phone marketing for companies in the United States and Canada.

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