On 1/27/2012 11:43 AM, Nathan wrote:
On Jan 26, 10:47 am, Tim Mensch <[email protected]> wrote: > And I could have it wave like a flag instead of being in a 3d box. > That way it's at least Computer Graphics 102 instead of 101. :)
Do report back on whether you make a solid living on one wallpaper app, or whether you end up making multiple ones.
Honestly, if I were to go down that road, it would almost certainly be with multiple themed apps, just like the featured one that started off this discussion. The SEO advantage of that approach is undeniable.
Just by having a search term in the title of your app you're likely to end up on the first page of search results. Look, for example, at the first page of the results from Angry Birds. See the game "Angry Frogs"? When I look up its rank, it shows up as "not in the top 500." You have to go to page three to find my game (Hamster: Attack!), a game with high ratings, in the same genre as Angry Birds, and ranked between 105 and 120 in the US for the past few weeks in Arcade/Action (higher in other countries -- Northern Europeans seem to love Hamster, as well as South- and East-Asians). Angry Frogs has a lot more downloads than Hamster, but then apps like "Angry Birds Backup" have only 5-10k downloads (I get that much per DAY most days) and terrible ratings, but they're also listed on the first page.
So when someone searches "Chinese New Year", apps (including wallpapers) with that term in the NAME will be ranked way higher than similar apps that have mention it in the description. And an Awesome 10000 Wallpapers app that can't even begin to list all of the images it supports wouldn't show up for several pages, even if it were really popular, and even if it managed to list the search term the user is interested in.
So there's no doubt that having 200 apps, one for each search term, is the smarter approach, and having that app be featured seems like implicit approval of that behavior by Google. Despite what the developer agreement says about "repetitive" apps. It does feel like that specifically bars 200 similar screen saver apps -- what else could it mean? -- but if the reality is that such apps are being FEATURED, and more importantly, not taken down, ever (barring DMCA challenges), what conclusions can we come to as developers? Especially when no one at Google EVER comments as to the specific meaning of those agreements...
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