I suppose I wasn't clear either :). There are plenty of "qualified enough" review sites out there that generate a large amount of traffic for an app. Of course "large" is relative, but when you're starting out, getting as high in the rankings as quickly as possible is really important, and that means getting people to download your app. If you can get a few thousand people to download and keep you app installed within a week or two, you'll move up in the rankings very quickly.
My suggestion is to request reviews from as many of the Android review sites as one can find. AndroidGuys, AndroidTapp, AppRoasters etc. These guys do decent reviews, have fairly impressive traffic, and are just generally good guys. The reviews don't even have to be all positive. Some of my most effective traffic generators have been from reviews that had a fair bit of negative mixed in. Once you're established in the market rankings, reviews from these mid- market niche sites are less important. When starting out, however, they have a real role to play in the marketing of an application. On Mar 2, 11:19 pm, "Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave, > > I didn't imply that reviews were not effective. What I was trying to > say is that reviews by qualified news sources are as hard to come by > as hen's teeth. It would be great to have Tech Crunch, PC Mag or The > New York Times do a review on my app. I just don't think that's likely > to happen. Do you? > > -John Coryat -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
