Okay, this is one of the greatest tools for promoting ANYTHING! If you haven't checked out IFTTT, then you have got to check it out right now!
http://youtu.be/NdP9C5ymMzU
http://youtu.be/NdP9C5ymMzU
Showing posts with label promoting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label promoting. Show all posts
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Monday, January 28, 2013
Why AdMob is #1 in Monetizing
It speaks for itself... It saves so much time in messing with integrating multiple ad networks sdks into your app. You just have to add the jar and that's it. Then you can screw with the settings and ad networks later once your app is already on the market, as you start to see results. It's easier to sort through the pieces and find good ad networks. AdMob is definitely an indie's #1 priority in monetizing. The only tough part is... you can have several different size banners, which means you need multiple layouts... but... you should have multiple layouts anyway... right?!? Haha. That was a joke. It's hard for 1 person to run a business... all that being said... here are the screenshots from admob....
...as I stated earlier... it speaks for itself.
P.S. - You can also spread your audience with AdMob house ads. Check it out for yourself in the admob dashboard.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Promoting Your Android App Part 2
As we have seen, there a literally dozens of ways to promote an app. Some of the ways we have talked about so far are: mass distribution (through many stores), promoting your app in forums, creating a website, hosting your app on fileshares, distributing apps as torrents, and starting a blog. We have also talked a wee bit about social sharing, but today I'd like to talk about that a little bit more. The importance of social sharing is phenomenal when it comes to marketing your apps. The other day, my brother in-law came over and told my wife and I that some girl made a video of herself playing our game on Facebook. Sometimes, we tend to overlook some of the obvious things: start a Fan Page, etc. What I am saying is, you really SHOULD have a fan page for your business, at least, and maybe even a few for individual apps. Creating a Facebook fan page can be huge for business. You can find out more about fan pages here: https://www.facebook.com/pages. Another, possibly even more powerful than Facebook pages, useful tool is Google+/Google Pages. Create a page on Google+, you won't regret it. You can even link it to your Blogger account so when you blog it automatically gets posted to your page. More information about Google+ Pages can be found here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/pages/manage. Also, if you are trying to make it big in Android, you shouldn't spend all your free time blogging about developing. Haha. Jk. Anyway, some other things you should consider are: posting links to Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Pinterest, RebelMouse, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Blogger, etc. One more thing I'd like to mention, which of course most of you have probably heard of, is cross-promotion. One of the BEST ways to promote your app (or anything for that matter) for free, is to exchange advertising for advertising, of course, our good friends at TapForTap can surely help you out with that. I will write an article about them later. They deserve it, if you haven't seen it yet, check out TapForTap, now. There is also a Mega-Post of all android/r/ developer's apps on Reddit, which can be found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/rdfdn/megapost_of_all_apps_created_by_randroid/
Links For Promoting Android Apps
http://gplus.to (shortlinks for google pages)
Monday, September 10, 2012
Promoting Your Android App Part 1
Today I want to talk a little about promoting your Android app in general. I will also provide links to many valuable resources for promoting your apps. There are loads of ways to promote your app. One way I have talked about previously is to submit your app to alternative markets (markets other than Google Play). I posted a massive list I have accumulated while searching for alternative forms of distribution. The list can be found in the original post, which is available here: http://anddev.blogspot.com/2012/09/big-list-of-app-markets.html. Another form of promotion is to submit your app to forums. I have also written a previous post about that, as well as distributing through fileshares, torrents, etc. However, there are some other ways I haven't discussed. Some of them being very important to promoting your app. One of the most important ways to promote your app that every developer should definitely have, at least one of, is a website. Having a website helps promote your app, helps users find to your app and information about all of your apps, and helps increase SEO of your app on the web (and by SEO I, of course, mean search engine optimization). Also, if you have a website, you can promote the website, which in turn, promotes your app(s). One the absolute BEST ways to promote your website is through StumbleUpon and also their su.pr shortlink service. Another one, that will also help with SEO, is to submit your site to Digg and Reddit. There is one more great way to promote your app that I'd like to talk about before I give you the list of sites to help with your promotion, and that is, through a blog. Having a blog can, easily, be one of the greatest ways you can promote your app for free. If you want to see an example check out our "Poke My Gummy Blog", a blog based off our simplest game on which we now post information about all of our gummy games.
Promote Your App/Site
more to come....
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