New mobile redirection script



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Glad I could help, Mark. Cheers!

Your awesome Quinn.
Thanks for repeating yourself.
I guess I was too tired to understand you the first time ;-).
Works perfectly now. Thanks a million!

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Hey Mark, it looks like for the Credit Repair Affiliates Mobile URL is spelled correctly in your script, but the actual URL has a typo: http://unbouncepages.com/credit-repair-affilates-mobile/

If you go to the Page Overview of the mobile page, you can change the URL and correct “affilates” to “affiliates” and it should be good to go.

The Credit Repair Evaluation is working correctly for me, so if you’re still seeing issues, you may need to clear your cache.

Thanks for the quick replay Quinn and for pointing that out.

I made all the necessary adjustments but unfortunately it’s still not working.

This is a screenshot or the “pages” showing all 4 landing pages so you can see the URLs.

This is a screenshot of the script on “credit-repair-affiliates” so you can see the URL I’m forwarding to…

This is a screenshot of the script on “credit-repair-evaluation” so you can see the URL I’m forwarding to here…

I really appreciate your time Quinn. I hope you can shed some light on this for me.

Thanks for the quick replay Quinn and for pointing that out.

I made all the necessary adjustments but unfortunately it’s still not working.

This is a screenshot or the “pages” showing all 4 landing pages so you can see the URLs.

This is a screenshot of the script on “credit-repair-affiliates” so you can see the URL I’m forwarding to…

This is a screenshot of the script on “credit-repair-evaluation” so you can see the URL I’m forwarding to here…

I really appreciate your time Quinn. I hope you can shed some light on this for me.

Quinn,

Thanks for the quick reply and for pointing that out.

I made all the necessary changes but it’s still not working.

This is a screenshot from an iPhone 4…

This is a screenshot of the pages screen showing the 4 pages we have created so you can see the URLs. 2 desktop versions and 2 mobile…

This is a screenshot of the script on the affiliates landing page…

Lastly, this is a screenshot of the script on the credit evaluation landing page…

Thanks for the help. I appreciate your time Quinn.

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Hi Mark,

The set-up is 90% of the way there. The only thing you’ll need to change is your mobile URL. Rather than at go.unbouncepages.com… you’ll need to link to:
http://unbouncepages.com/credit-repair-affilates-mobile/

The URL of your mobile page will display near the top-left of the screen on Page Overview:

Once you make that change, the redirect should be up and running.

Hey Unbounce!

I’m using this URL in a custom menu on Wordpress for my clients affiliate landing page…

http://unbouncepages.com/credit-repai…

I’m redirecting to this URL for mobile users.

http://go.unbouncepages.com/credit-re…

I can’t seem to get it to work…

Even tried redirecting to another URL not on unbounce servers with no luck.

On old Android Evo v2.3.5 doesn’t redirect.

On iPhone 5 says “page not found on server”?

Use the version of the script that redirects just mobile visitors, and leaves desktop visitors on the current page.

Obviously I’m not doing something right.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks Justin, but I figured out the issue. The person I had tested the landing page before I could make sure the java script showed in the Header. This is resolved due to user error 🙂

Hey there,

Our mobile redirection script should work across all mobile devices, including Windows Phone. Would you be able to let us know exactly which model/software you’re using? I’m going to go ahead and follow up with you directly via email to see if we can help troubleshoot. Hang tight!

Doesn’t seem to work on windows phones

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Hi Mitch! Great question.

Right now, the scripts above don’t treat tablets as mobile devices Ð so they won’t be sent to the mobile version.

We’ve found that this is what most people want.

Our templates are between 900 and 1000px wide, so this makes them pretty ideal for tablets. For example, an iPad in landscape mode is 1024 effective pixels wide, so it fits perfectly. In portrait mode it’s 768px Ð so this means your page will appear ‘zoomed out’ slightly, but likely not enough to make any text unreadable.

Mitch, can I ask for some more details about your thinking behind redirecting tablet users to a third version of your page? We don’t have a script for it at the moment, so we’d like to look into this some more.

Hey everyone, any chance Unbounce can provide me with a third code, one that redirects ipad users to an ipad sized page?

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Hey Christopher - A redirect should not have a affect on your Quality score. See this Adwords forum post below:

https://www.en.adwords-community.com/t5/Advanced-Features/Page-Redirection-Will-effect-to-quality-sc…

The summary is Google follows the redirect to the actual pages.

I’m really struggling with the concept of these solutions. Let’s assume I create 3 pages: a routing page, a mobile page and a desktop page. Won’t our quality score be negatively affected by the “routing landing page”?

I don’t see a clear solution without significant downsides and this is posing a major issue for us.

Hi Tim - Completely agreed. This is just a workaround and not meant to be an ideal solution. We’re in the process of building responsive page design and are running a closed alpha test with a handful of customers right now. We want to create a much more elegant solution for you that isn’t any extra work.

Wouldn’t it be a better approach to design for mobile first with progressive enhancement, or to just design responsively?

I think the requirement to design two different pages is creating extra work where it’s not required.

Tim

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Happy to help, Frank. You’ll likely see some discrepancy going forward for the same reason, but if you do ever want us to take a look, just reply here or shoot us an email at supportATunbounce.com and I can take a look again to make sure everything’s accounted for.

Got it thanks Quinn.

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Hi Frank - I took a look at your pages and looked at the traffic coming to the redirect page. Four of the hits were bots, so they would have either disabled the redirect or abandoned the page after it fired and it looks like the other unaccounted for hit was from the Twitter for iPhone browser. The last one is likely someone who clicked out from Twitter and then immediately backed out to their timeline again.

Hi Quinn, I’m using the “to mobile and desktop” approach on a few pages and I am a little confused about why the total visitor count is not adding up. To clarify, I have set up 3 pages:

I’ve got the redirect script on landingpage.com and it is showing 8 unique visitors. landingpage.com/mobile is showing 1 unique visitor and landingpage.com/desktop is showing 2 unique visitors for a total of 3 uniques.

What happened to the other 5 that hit landingpage.com?

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Hey there! The script will automatically carry over the UTM parameters to the redirected link

Is there a way to do this without losing UTM parameters at the end of the URL?

Thanks - working well so far.

For others: I copied my main page to create a desktop variant, and then create a mobile page from scratch. With those setup, clean, tested, and published, I turned my main landing page into a redirect-only stub and recording my stats previous to the split. Overall didn’t take very long and it appears to behave as intended.

Looking forward to more integrated support mobile support in the future.

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Hey Amanda - In cases like this the best approach is to unpublish and set the webinar registration page to a different URL. Then create and set a new page with only the redirection script to the original registration URL. This should prevent any further impact to your original registration page stats.

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