thefriendlygeek said:
Because Pleco is brand new for Android, and the Android Market, I would like to know what you would like us as users to do to get it more exposure.
I would imagine if we had all the people using the Android version to send enough requests to review it, at least one would do it.
Thanks! Really nice of you to ask about that.
Review requests would be great - we've got a few pending from various China-related bloggers, but we're always happy to have more. A big goal for the first few weeks is to get lots of free-version downloads, so that we can climb up high in the search results and consequently get more downloads; we're already on the first page of results for "Chinese dictionary," in fact at #18 we're one spot higher than we were until we'd been on iOS for more than a year, so I'm definitely liking Google's search ranking algorithms better than Apple's for our purposes, but more downloads will hopefully get us up in the top 5 (where we join the ranks of of "free apps that people download to play around with when they first get their Android phone"). So any traffic those guys generate would be lovely.
However, targeted traffic is really important for other search ranking stuff - we're currently #4 in Google searches for "Chinese dictionary Android" but we'd like to be #1 (as we are for iPhone). So for that reason I'd say Chinese-specific blogs / forums / etc are at least as high a priority as general-purpose Android ones, even if they have much less traffic. Forum posts / blog comments are a big deal, but with those it's important that you not be so positive as to sound like a shill / fake reviewer - generally it's best to only post in a place in which you already have a reputation / a lot of other posts. If you spot something negative / inaccurate about Pleco in a public discussion forum or blog and it goes unanswered for a few days, I'd appreciate being made aware of it so that I can post a response. I try to keep up on that stuff, but it's tough to keep track of every single place people are discussing Chinese.
Beyond that, just spreading the word in general - in-person word-of-mouth has gotten us even more users than online word-of-mouth, lower volume but higher conversion rates
thefriendlygeek said:
I didn't see Pleco on AppBrain. I'm not sure, how often it syncs with Android Market.
Yeah, I've been waiting for it to show up there too (if for no other reason then because their analytics are superior to Google's in some ways) - hopefully soon.
thefriendlygeek said:
BTW, are you going to release Pleco on Amazon Market, Get Jar, or other alternative markets?
Amazon AppStore - probably not; their distribution rules make Apple's look downright friendly by comparison, and they seem to be letting Kindle Fires run non-Amazon apps.
GetJar - not too familiar with them; do they offer in-app purchases? Any idea what their % rates are like? Why in general would someone download an app from GetJar instead of Android Market?
burdenofhope said:
I have also already put up a "review" on the Android Market (Michael), but why can't I see yours?
They seem to lag by a few hours, FWIW.