What are Your Tips for Getting Your Apps Noticed?
Hi Everyone
Taken on your past experiences of marketing your Apps via the big markets, what tips can you give for getting your app noticed and downloaded?
All advice appreciated!
Colin
Taken on your past experiences of marketing your Apps via the big markets, what tips can you give for getting your app noticed and downloaded?
All advice appreciated!
Colin
Comments
The first 30 days are crucial for your app. You want to rank it as high as you can. If you manage to get in top 100 (maybe top 200), it will start rolling.
I see people having a lot of success with AppBrain (http://www.appbrain.com/info/advertise) - it's a premium quality service. You can also buy installs cheaper from services like ayetstudios.com. The retention rate is lower, but it will drive your app up the ranking ladder, which matters a lot.
Some people also use Facebook (direct linking to the app) and I remember someone here reported having a great experience from buying ads on Reddit.
I've launched a secondary GP account (for games only) and I will start promoting my apps with AppBrain.
Hope this helps.
Thank you for your advice, much appreciated!
Colin
http://androidfreegamesapps.forumotion.com/
Thank you for the offer.
Once I've got my app up and running, I will take you up on the offer.
Colin
Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that. I never used advertising for my apps before (except on AppsZoom - they had a free trial about a year ago, it helped to boost DL's for one of my apps from 50/day to 250/day and it stayed so for months), but I will need to as my games are having hard time getting traction. I'll report back when I have some experience to share.
You ads look good, but I'd try to make the text more visible, especially on the banner ad.
Please report back with your AdMob experience.
@hendrixs .. thanks for the reminder ;-)
I have done so now (for one app with a really good ecpm average over the past 3 month) and will report back in a week.
@corrsea
I really like the full page ad (I would only suggest to either write the text in white or use a white frame/shadow around the text) to make it, as henrixs said, more visible.
The banner ad is a bit too "chaotic" IMO. I would rather use a plain black background with only one darker image to the right and write the text in white.
I have added 3 campaigns with a $0.60 bid.
3 download within 3 days and all campaigns have the "slow" mark.
Clicked the bid optimizer and was told to increase the bid to at least $2.50 (suggested bid is $3.00!!!)??
What the heck?? $3.00 for 1 download?
Honestly, that is an amount I am not willing to pay for a FREE app.
Maybe this works for high priced paid apps (or apps with IAP), but not for the free ones.
What is your guys budget for CPD campaigns?
I have a new game in the works and as soon it is launched, I'll test AppBrain and report here. This should be around 15 days from now.