Hi, this is a minute of Overpass, my name is Eric and I make apps.
Now this week, I wanna talk about a very easy way to get yourself on the front page of the
Google Play Store.
Okay so a few days ago I got a comment from somebody named Kummetha asking how to get
their app featured on the front page of the Google Play store for Android which sounds
like a hard thing to do.
I mean, we all, every single one of us wants our app featured on the front page of Android,
however, there are certain things you could do that not a lot of developers do.
And what I want you to do right now is, if you have an Android phone with you is, go
have a look at it and have a look at what the Google Play page shows for you.
Like for me, it will show "New & Noteworthy" and then it shows another section of a few
"What's Hot" apps.
But the third section down is a "Recommended Apps".
So what it does is it recommends apps for me.
So like, i'll show you a screenshot of what I see right now and what you see here is that
the first one there is this Stair game.
And the reason it says it's been suggested for me is because it's been plus 1'd by one
of my users, or one of my friends, rather.
So what this means is somebody I know, maybe someone in my circles, maybe somebody in my
email, but somebody that Google considers my friend has plus 1'd this app.
So most people, most developers, most everybody in general ignores Google Plus.
As an Android developer, they provide libraries for you to just put a Plus 1 button in your
app.
So this is something that if you're using native development, it's something you probably
shouldn't pass up on.
Like if I show you the 'About' page for Ear Spy, we put the Google Plus button right inside
there.
So, unlike a review or rating where you have to actually bring people out of the app and
go back to the app description store so they could leave it, a Google Plus is a button
that you could put straight in the app.
And what that means is that, in the case of the stair game, it ends up on my front page.
So, if you could get enough people to go through and do a single click, so we're not talking
about "Leave a Review", we're not talking about "Think from 1 through 5", just say "Plus
1 it" then, things start to spread a little bit more that way.
It's very different than the way you would ASO or try to spread the word for an iPhone
app.
So this is something that's really overlooked.
Now, we've done this for all of our native applications, all of our native Android applications.
But like the Corona SDK ones, there's no library or plugin for Google Plus 1.
I've asked for a few years and they said you can build one yourself but we haven't done
that so we haven't seen that kind of growth with Corona SDK as we have with native Android.
And I think a lot of it has to do with just that plus 1 button.
I mean, Google wants you to use Google Plus.
I mean, even if you don't use Google Plus, and maybe you've circled a few people in the
past because, whatever, you're trying it out but it never really took off, those people,
they still will get notified if you plus 1'd something.
And if you could get them to plus one something then the people they've circled, all that
kinda stuff, all the people that have circled them, and you could spread a little bit that
way.
So it's not the "be all and end all" but it's a very easy way to get to the front page of
the Google Play page that most people overlook.
So, I hope this has been helpful.
Now if you are using the Google Plus 1 button, let me know how it's working for you.
It has worked phenomenally well for me but let me know how it works for you and I'd love
to hear what you have to say.
Okay, that's it.
I'll talk to you next week.
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