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Android App Promotion

I've tried out bestratingfor.me. They can add excellent ratings to your app. Wonderful result.

kna-andr said:
I've tried out bestratingfor.me. They can add excellent ratings to your app. Wonderful result.
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Wt's that:S

The most logical thing to do to promote your app is to try to get visibility on the market by having an attractive description and good screenshots.
After that, try to get your app featured on one of the bigger Android blogs, or post it to a forum like XDA to get some initial user feedback.
If you want to spend money to boost your app, you could try advertising on networks like http://www.admob.com with a link directly to the market. Alternatively there are services that let you promote apps where you only pay for actual installs of your app on users' phones.
(Disclaimer: I'm developer of AppBrain, and we also offer a cost-per-install app promotion system: http://www.appbrain.com/info/advertise )
Good luck with your app!

The cheating way? bad... bad....

If your app is high quality and people will want it, who cares how you get it noticed...I'd just want to get it noticed, no matter the method.

There are definitely a lot of blogs out there that are willing to review apps. These blogs need the hits and you need the downloads. It is win win. Submit them to the blogs.

Yeah, submit to blogs and review sites and cross your fingers!

Rob1968 said:
There are definitely a lot of blogs out there that are willing to review apps. These blogs need the hits and you need the downloads. It is win win. Submit them to the blogs.
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Can you put links, please?

I recommend to establish your own developer's site which will describe your app. And then make SEO, show people what your application does and offer to redirect Android Market: path to app.

will check it out

Promote Android App

how to promote my android app for free???

I guess you can find many promotion methods after you install an app from Google Play.
Splash window,
Push notification,
App recommendation inside an app.
Corporate with other developers and promote apps for each other.
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Well, at least the first three promotion methods can be found in most of the apps from Google Play.
But who knows more promotion methods?

You may install swably and share your apps in there, its community where dev and customer share thoughts about lots of app
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As previously stated, Swably is a free way to promote & share apps. That's probably your best bet.
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ariser said:
I guess you can find many promotion methods after you install an app from Google Play.
Splash window,
Push notification,
App recommendation inside an app.
Corporate with other developers and promote apps for each other.
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Well, at least the first three promotion methods can be found in most of the apps from Google Play.
But who knows more promotion methods?
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thanks very much.

okmijnlp said:
As previously stated, Swably is a free way to promote & share apps. That's probably your best bet.
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Go.Bin said:
You may install swably and share your apps in there, its community where dev and customer share thoughts about lots of app
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This app on Google Play?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=goofy2.swably
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okmijnlp said:
As previously stated, Swably is a free way to promote & share apps. That's probably your best bet.
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Oops, after I install this app from Google Play, I'm stuck in the Connect through a network page, and it gives me three options: Facebook, Twitter, Google+. However, if I choose Facebook, it takes long time to load and then gives me the message of "Connect to...timed out".

ariser said:
This app on Google Play?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=goofy2.swably
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Oops, after I install this app from Google Play, I'm stuck in the Connect through a network page, and it gives me three options: Facebook, Twitter, Google+. However, if I choose Facebook, it takes long time to load and then gives me the message of "Connect to...timed out".
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can you access Facebook on your phone?

subscribe to getjar and publish your app. or publish your app on Amazon appstore....
OR
Go To This Site and Publish [media.droidtweak. com / android-app-marketing] (Copy and paste it remove spaces, m a new user so i cant post outsider links, m jus trying to help, sorry moderators)
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Before you make any sort of promotional effort, you need to do the following:
1) Make sure you have a good rating. Get 10 friends to give you 5-stars. Nobody wants to download an unrated app (or even one with less than 5 ratings).
2) Add a video on the app store. It doesn't need to be pro, just something that gives a good indication of what your app does.
3) Make sure your screenshots are good and your description is accurate. The first sentence is the most important for describing what the app does.
After it's on the store (free version):
1) Post in forums
2) Submit it to review websites
3) Write up a press release (catchy headline, what your app does, why is it better - have a good angle) and send it to every news / tech / related website you can find. Who knows, 1 or 2 websites out of the 100s might write something about you, which can get you 100s of downloads. It's worth the hours it takes to do this. Also, use some Mail Merge software to make it personal (as simple as "Hi [name]").
4) Find influential twitter users that you think would use your app. Send them a message - dont harass them though. Be sincere. If they like it and they haven't tweeted about it, ask them to.

sam shaikh said:
subscribe to getjar and publish your app. or publish your app on Amazon appstore....
OR
Go To This Site and Publish [media.droidtweak. com / android-app-marketing] (Copy and paste it remove spaces, m a new user so i cant post outsider links, m jus trying to help, sorry moderators)
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Before you make any sort of promotional effort, you need to do the following:
1) Make sure you have a good rating. Get 10 friends to give you 5-stars. Nobody wants to download an unrated app (or even one with less than 5 ratings).
2) Add a video on the app store. It doesn't need to be pro, just something that gives a good indication of what your app does.
3) Make sure your screenshots are good and your description is accurate. The first sentence is the most important for describing what the app does.
After it's on the store (free version):
1) Post in forums
2) Submit it to review websites
3) Write up a press release (catchy headline, what your app does, why is it better - have a good angle) and send it to every news / tech / related website you can find. Who knows, 1 or 2 websites out of the 100s might write something about you, which can get you 100s of downloads. It's worth the hours it takes to do this. Also, use some Mail Merge software to make it personal (as simple as "Hi [name]").
4) Find influential twitter users that you think would use your app. Send them a message - dont harass them though. Be sincere. If they like it and they haven't tweeted about it, ask them to.
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nice advices, but the first link goes to paid reviews

New android app - need exposure
Hi everyone,
I'm a noob here (hopefully I'm not violating any rules) and was hoping to post one of my android apps here to help it gain some traction. My 11 year old son worked with me on this app, I would just like to keep him motivated by seeing some success.
Lately with the way the android market has become saturated, it has been very tough to get your app discovered.
I only do this as a hobby on the side. I have only developed games, they are all pretty simple games, no 3D or anything like that.
I recently released a dice game app (variation of Yahtzee), That I think some people would like.
It has some online challenge features with scoreloop, and an extra game mode.
My downloads to date are pretty poor, and was hoping to gain some exposure.
here is the link on the google play store:
play.google.com/store/ apps/details?id=com.anndconsulting.yahtzeecrag
I have a free (ad supported) and paid version released.
developer ID is ANND Consulting Games
Thanks for the help
Please let me know , if there is a better way of doing this, and I apologize in advance if I have violated and rules here.

When I was trying different methods to promote my app, I kinda noted it down. Here is brief about what I did:
http://obscurant1st.biz/blog/how-to-promote-android-app/

1. Never use push notifications aka push it to people's notification centers. People will perceive it as spam, and never download it. Ever.
2. Contact several Android news sites, and tip them that your *special* app is available. With special, i mean, really special. Don't even do it if it's a fart app or a stupid and useless app. You don't deserve the attention.
3. XDA. Publish it in the app section. People will find it and download it. People will use it if it's any good, or people will complain if it's ****; and you'll deserve it.
Bottom line: Build it, and they will come. Exploit the system in a bad way and you'll go nowhere. Don't piss people off with annoying ads.

From my very recent experience, getting a review on a major website with tons of viewers will get you a ton of attention. Websites like android police and android central have a ton of views per day.
My usual promotions were to post on forums. If you were lucky and people paid attention to your app, they'd download it. The more downloads you get, the higher chances of it showing up on Top New apps or just Top Apps. Once you get on that list, its when the app will finally take off. Its took 2.5 weeks for my live wallpaper to get to top 10 new paid live wallpapers and top 10 new free live wallpaper. The Top Paid live wallpaper is easy to get on as only a few purchases will qualify the app.
Anyway, back to my point about the review. My app was doing ok and there was a consistent downloads per day then it started to decline a little. But all of a sudden, my google wallets account exploded with purchases and my free version with admob banners, the requests and impressions exploded. I was shocked and had no idea what was going on. Then, a quick google of my app, revealed that android police decided to give my app a review. i was shocked. I never asked them to review it, so it was pretty much free publicity. If you look at the little graph on the right side of my app, you'll see how it was starting to decline, then all of a sudden, it shot up.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qk.batterycorelwfree
Here's the review on my app.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...e-way-to-track-your-lithium-ion-expenditures/
Main points:
1. Post on forums
2. Get a review done.
Side note, I've never seen a good app not get downloads. All good apps will get tons of downloads.

LordManhattan said:
3. XDA. Publish it in the app section.
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Well, I've published my app in the app section, People loved it and found it useful, I updated frequently, But The app went in the last pages which I think no one checks,

True is there any really good way to promote app for free?
UpGado said:
Well, I've published my app in the app section, People loved it and found it useful, I updated frequently, But The app went in the last pages which I think no one checks,
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chengsokdara said:
True is there any really good way to promote app for free?
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There are lots of ways. Requesting a review for your app is one of the easiest ways.
I have started a free review service, You could consider requesting a free review from me!
Also see this link from my signature with lots of tips to promote our apps for free!

I can help promoting yours apps on the biggest Polish Android forum.

qkhang said:
Then, a quick google of my app, revealed that android police decided to give my app a review. i was shocked. I never asked them to review it, so it was pretty much free publicity.
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In other words: what you say about yourself, is advertising. What others say about you, it's public relations - much more effective way of promotion, but much much more complicated, too.

Google play, rating your own app.

if i have an android phone, am i allowed to download and rate my own apps? or is this against google play policy?
Ive searched around and cant find any solid answer.
the reason i am asking is because if i upload a new app and give a 5 star rating, it will drastically increase its visibility in the Google play store.
anyone have any experience with this? because i do not want to risk getting my dev account suspended for something as stupid as a couple of 5 star ratings (multiple apps).

This is a good question, why not create a new Google account, and rate your app?
What is the name of your app? I can rate it for you.
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TheGTS said:
This is a good question, why not create a new Google account, and rate your app?
What is the name of your app? I can rate it for you.
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I believe that rating your app from a different account is not very honest, but you can do it. But you have to install the app and Google has a way of detecting fake reviews (e.g. coming from a combination of same device/same IP address).
Also a completely different story is rating your app from your dev. account - I believe it is possible because you have the app INSTALLED, but I did not have the guts to click on the review icon

To be honest one review will not affect anything...usually reviews are taken seriously with couple thousand downloads on the app.. at which point your own review wouldnt even matter...

AppDevProject said:
To be honest one review will not affect anything...usually reviews are taken seriously with couple thousand downloads on the app.. at which point your own review wouldnt even matter...
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Well, good ratings are one of the factors which place your app at the top of the search results. If your rating was the first one, it could have a serious impact. But asking your friends might be better.

Not sure if it's against policy, but as mentioned above - it's not very honest.
Do you really need to rate your own apps? Are they not good enough or enticing enough to make others rate it legitimately?

Very good points. Get family and friends to rate your app.
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tomed said:
Not sure if it's against policy, but as mentioned above - it's not very honest.
Do you really need to rate your own apps? Are they not good enough or enticing enough to make others rate it legitimately?
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You need to get some ratings quickly. Especially when you are zero budget indie. Even if you don't appear in Top games/apps it still influences the search rankings. E.g. when I released my game Mr. Dandelion, I ranked so low, I had to scroll down very far. Searching for "Dandelion game" I was ranked as 21. I managed to get some friends, family and fellow Indie developers to rate it and it bumped me to place 10. Now my goal is to appear on the first page after searching for "Dandelion". Unfortunately there's a million live wallpapers about dandelions

Are politicians allowed to vote for themselves? Of course! Rating your own app isn't that dishonest and won't have a real impact. Creating more accounts to rate your app is definitely dishonest (and probably doesn't pay off anyway). Writing reviews for your own app without disclosing that you made the app is shady imho.

gummihaf said:
Are politicians allowed to vote for themselves? Of course! Rating your own app isn't that dishonest and won't have a real impact. Creating more accounts to rate your app is definitely dishonest (and probably doesn't pay off anyway). Writing reviews for your own app without disclosing that you made the app is shady imho.
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And since when are politicians honest :laugh:

kulisgames said:
And since when are politicians honest :laugh:
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Touché! :good:

Personally, I've only gone as far as +1 and sharing my own app. Like others have said previously, in the long run, rating your own app won't have a major impact increasing visibility, but you SHOULD encourage your friends/users to rate it so it begins to be noticed by Google's search algorithm.

I just reread Google's Developer Distribution Agreement[1] and Developer Content Policy[2] and found the two places where they mention app ratings.
Neither of the terms say a developer can't rate their own apps. But, I have more to say after the quotes...
In the Developer Distribution Agreement:
"4.9 Product Ratings. The Market will allow users to rate Products. Only users who download the applicable Product will be able to rate it. Product ratings will be used to determine the placement of Products on the Market with higher rated Products generally given better placement, subject to Google's ability to change placement at Google's sole discretion. The Market may also assign you a composite score for any Product that has not received user ratings. A Developer Composite Score will be a representation of the quality of your Product based on your history and will be determined at Google's sole discretion. For new Developers without Product history, Google may use or publish performance measurements such as uninstall and/or refund rates to identify or remove Products that are not meeting acceptable standards, as determined by Google. Google reserves the right to display Products to users in a manner that will be determined at Google's sole discretion."
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In the Developer Content Policy:
"Developers must not attempt to change the placement of any Product in the Store, or manipulate any product ratings or reviews, by unauthorized means such as fraudulent installs, paid or fake reviews or ratings, or by offering incentives to rate products."
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I take it from these two policies that is is okay for you to rate and review your own app. But, creating a new account, then installing the app to rate it would be considered a fraudulent install. So, don't do that. There are many websites (and spam emails I get every week) that break these policies and if you use any of them, then you are risking your development account and apps.
Another note: You can not buy your own apps from Google Play, therefore you can not rate or review your own paid apps either. The error message you will get when trying to buy your own app is "Your order was cancelled because you can't buy from yourself."
Though, personally, I have never rated any of my apps. And, I don't ask my closest friends to rate all my apps, just in case Google is trying to link accounts together (they do have the ability).
Your best bet is to create apps that people truly want. I have an app in the market now with over 100k installs without doing any real marketing. I guess people just like it that much. Though, I do believe in my app, and if I actually advertised it, then I could probably get 2-10x more daily installs.
(As a new user with less than 10 posts, I can't post outside links yet.)
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play.google.com/about/developer-distribution-agreement .html
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play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy .html

I am a new developer and this is quite informative. I want to ask the other way. If someone is intentionally giving bad rating to your app, how do u track it? If there is no "Google +" account who has rated the app, it will say "A google user" only.

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I am a new developer and this is quite informative. I want to ask the other way. If someone is intentionally giving bad rating to your app, how do u track it? If there is no "Google +" account who has rated the app, it will say "A google user" only.
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If the comment is obviously mean and unhelpful you could try to report it to Google and hope for the best.
I usually respond to the comment on the console. Users don't mind bad comments as long as we take actions.

rmyb said:
If the comment is obviously mean and unhelpful you could try to report it to Google and hope for the best.
I usually respond to the comment on the console. Users don't mind bad comments as long as we take actions.
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But then, when you have unhelpful comments, reply to them in the console, report them to Google after not getting any response, and then nothing happens, you know you just have to live with them.
On OP's topic, I have reviewed my own app, as I think it is very good at what it does, so I want to support it with my vote. Is that not a fair review?

danialgoodwin said:
Another note: You can not buy your own apps from Google Play, therefore you can not rate or review your own paid apps either. The error message you will get when trying to buy your own app is "Your order was cancelled because you can't buy from yourself."
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I know this is an old thread, but I wanted to add some relevant information here for future viewers, considering I found this post and used it for information too. While you can't buy your own apps, you can create a promotion in the developer console, and use a promo code to give the app to yourself. I've done this for my own apps, and it worked successfully.

Nothing wrong with giving your app a decent first rating to kick things off. Remember that reviews and ratings are a useful tool to find out what people like or dislike about your app, and often offer guidance on how to improve it. Read it, digest it, and let the guys giving feedback know that you're doing something about it.

How can I increase downloads

How can I increase downloads on my application without paid promotion? Here is the link https <Remove this space> ://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.random_messenger.android&hl=en

Alexhudson623 said:
Simply just try to offer good and quality apps for users or for website design service[/url] site owners. People do really appreciate good apps. I would like to share an example of the game app Candy crush which is doing just amazing and there are millions of users for this game app for now. And hundred and thousands of downloads have been made. People just love good apps. If you are making great then obviously you'll get liked by every one and the downloads will also increase which is a white hat technique.
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Really? You are saying that just make your game and people will find it if it's good enough? Maybe that was true some years ago, but certainly nowadays it's completely wrong. Optimize your keywords to be shown in relevant searches is one of the keys (ASO), but unfortunately not the only one. Spread the word in alternative channels is also necessary... but it isn't enough neither. Actually, get users without spend tons of dollars in advertising is quite a challenge. I really would like to hear some advices from someone who have experience in this.
By the way, JeanPierreQC, your idea is quite good, but I'm afraid there's many apps which do exactly the same, anyway cool idea, it's a pity you need a lot of users to make it work.

With patience
Unless you get very lucky there is no any simple way to get users fast. The market places are very competitive. Market you apps in social media and internet forums, get all your friends and relatives download your apps. Make many apps that draw users to your other apps. Make so great app that somebody wants to become your partner and does the promotion for you. Simple things like the signature banner below this message can make the difference in the long term.

try to implement the ASO to trigger the app installs

Don't forget that download alone isn't enough. you need the users to be engaged. Having thousands of downloads will not give you higher ranking if everyone simply uninstall it immediately. So be aware from pay per install plan where the users has insensitive to perform the installation. At the end of the day, your app needs to be able to keep the customers with you.

ASO is imho a bit overrated. Having relevant keywords and a nice looking icon and screens, and stuff like that, is simply common sense to me. As long as you have that you have good enough ASO really. ASO isn't some secret trick to get thousands of daily downloads like some people seem to think. There are no secret tricks for that.
To get a lot of download you need to put in A LOT of work, and/or A LOT of money. And have a really good app of course.
Anyway, I good idea that has worked very well for me is localising. If you can't localise your entire app you can at least localise the app description. Adding a few more "big" languages for my app description have almost doubled my downloads, even though the app itself is in english only. It's also cheap as you can get translations for $5 each on fiverr. Sure you won't know how good they are for that little money, but it's basically no money spent and it's probably a lot better than google translate at the very least.

If you are sure that your app is engaging enough for users then try to put as many sharing options as possible within you app like fb,whatapp,twitter. this can boost your downloads.

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Anyway, I good idea that has worked very well for me is localising. If you can't localise your entire app you can at least localise the app description. Adding a few more "big" languages for my app description have almost doubled my downloads, even though the app itself is in english only. It's also cheap as you can get translations for $5 each on fiverr. Sure you won't know how good they are for that little money, but it's basically no money spent and it's probably a lot better than google translate at the very least.
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Hi,
Pretty interesting and good suggestion.
Could you please share some stats or further experiences about with v.s. without localising

Have you tried PR to push your app?
There's a blog post called "State of App Promotion" that you should check out. Can't post the link because I'm a new user, but just search for "DecisiveAds" on Twitter. It's pinned to the profile. Good luck!

AAP -Android App Promotion
Try AAP - Android App Promotion app on playstore as they provide free download exchange services where you download an app and your app gets downloaded in return .You can see the results in daily reports and take appropriate measure while doing so .

I checked the AAP - The idea is good, but the app has only 1 thousand installs, probably no more than 300 active, that means using this app I can drive maximum 300 installs - not serious promotion. Additionally, it is not clear, how google will consider this way of promotion - legitimate or not? So, taking a risk for few more installs worth?
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Hi,
Insensitive install is quiet good for new app, because google don't care too much about uninstall for the first month of launch. Many big company also use insensitive install. But link building, website review, user review, how often user come back to you app is also really important.

dandev99 said:
Don't forget that download alone isn't enough. you need the users to be engaged. Having thousands of downloads will not give you higher ranking if everyone simply uninstall it immediately. So be aware from pay per install plan where the users has insensitive to perform the installation. At the end of the day, your app needs to be able to keep the customers with you.
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Sorry but this is so wrong...
Having thousands of VALID downloads will boost your rankings even if 900 of them uninstalled it a day later. I'm writing from experience and not guessing

website promotion
The ultimate goal of search engine promotion is to increase sales. The more people see the site in high positions in the issue, the more people it visits and theoretically can become your customers. In order for a seo to produce results, it is necessary that the site be properly optimized using tools for a technical audit of the site and its analysis on parameters such as links, content and others.

Help to improve my APP SEO

Hey,
I just released my first APP and i still have few downloads, and i would love some more users to improve development and take the app as further as possible... So i wonder if any of you guys can help me with this part as I have really few experience with it. I'll add you to the credits as it's a free app.
My app is Ubik, search it on Google Play or this link (add http as i cant post external links yet)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.javierarias.ubika

cliffreich said:
Hey,
I just released my first APP and i still have few downloads, and i would love some more users to improve development and take the app as further as possible... So i wonder if any of you guys can help me with this part as I have really few experience with it. I'll add you to the credits as it's a free app.
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Start using AppAnnie - thats the best start to get a decent SEO campaign running... :good:
and ill quote something that I heard yesterday at the Mobile Monetization Summit from the VP marketing of Google (Europe, Middle East, Africa) : "Put your keyword in your app store app title, choose that keyword carefully..."

Also dont just put random keywords, try to stick to the relevant ones.

Try to make reviews as many as you can.
Use attractive keyword
Repeat the keywords more than 5
you can publish the app in many forum and media in order to create lots of link directly into the app link.
This will trigger app rank into top list.

I use the trial and error approach. I use tools like App Annie and Google Analytics and then simply try different things to see what works and what doesn't. I think it's very important to track what you do, so you don't spend tons of time doing something that actually doesn't give any real results.

agatepublishing1 said:
Try to make reviews as many as you can.
Use attractive keyword
Repeat the keywords more than 5
you can publish the app in many forum and media in order to create lots of link directly into the app link.
This will trigger app rank into top list.
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What I heard is little different.
It is "around" 5 times, not too many.
Too many repetitive word would be seen as spam.

I hope I helped u