2013年6月25日 星期二

LeadBolt - Advertising apps ad network , my first impression

Hi All, my Alarm Clock finally got about 250 download in Google Play Store, over last 10 days.
The experience of launching an Apps is quite amazing. I am a physical goods seller, and this is my first VIRTUAL product in cyber world.
If you want to support me, just download our Alarm Clock on Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=alarm.pro
Leave me good review and 5 stars!
If you are a Apps developer and want me to review your app too, leave me a message or comment in my blog. I will do it.
Apps generates income by two major way: the revenue from apps sold itself and advertising.
I spent over 500 USD on my apps and i want my money back!
I searched over the net and found that LeadBolt is a quite good company. Comparing to Google ADmob, LeadBolt offers me various of funny advertising way, they called them as “AD unit”.
Imagine:
If you created a cheap but popular apps… over 1,000,000 download. It is realistic in internet.
and 1/10 click on your ad, 100,000 x 0.2 USD = 20,000 USD you can earned.
How about if you created 10 apps? Seems that i am dreaming…
Ok, i need to join a mobile ad network which offer flexible, funny and attractive ad unit to get people click on my ad. In this way, i do not need to create “PAID” apps.
here are the ad unit that LeadBolt created


I really like the Notifications , very tricky and easily get people click.
However, the payment from LeadBolt would be quite long, they keeps will keep the payment for about 45 days. Correct me if i am wrong.
The customer service of LeadBolt is good, every new account has our own Customer Service Officer. My officer sent me welcome email, personally, not computer generated within 24 hours.
Admob is not so good in this sense, their ad unit are quite old-fashion. Too gentle, NOT aggressive.
It is very hard to attract click.
Since i am quite busy on my other company, i have no time to install the SDK. The SDK is needed to complie the Ad Unit of your apps, i will report to you guy once i start the SDK, and see how.

If you want to join LeadBolt, you may click the following link.
Join LeadBolt as developerJoin LeadBolt as advertiser

2013年6月24日 星期一

Free Android apps review sites

Hi. Of course, the greatest number of application installs is brought by market.android.com, but its structure doesn’t let new applications get into the top. It’s like a circle: the more installs come to market.android.com, the higher the position of the application in the top is and the more installs appear on market.android.com again. And vice versa – if there are few installs, your application is not in the top, therefore no more installs appear.
It turns out that at first you have to make an effort to push your app to the top of market.android.com. But where can you get these first application installs? There are sites with the reviews of android-apps in the network: large and small, free and commercial. As I noticed they give a good start to the applications which get into the top of new applications of market.android.com afterwards. Here is the list of sites that I’ve found:
http://www.androidappser.com/
http://www.bestfreeandroidapps.com/submit-android-app/ 
http://www.mobileappsgallery.com/submit-android-app/
http://latestandroidapps.net/submit-android-app/
http://www.androidtapp.com/get-reviewed/
https://developer.amazon.com/welcome.html
http://www.androidappsreview.com/submit-your-android-app/
http://www.openhandsetdevelopers.com/submit-android-application.html
http://www.bestandroidappsreview.com/recommend-an-app/
http://www.androidappsgallery.com/submit/
http://www.androidappdictions.com/submit-an-app
http://www.lifeofandroid.com/submit-an-app/
http://www.androidrundown.com/about/submit-app-hardware-review/
http://apps400.com/submit-your-application-for-review
http://www.androidvideoreview.net/submit-app/
http://appstouse.com/submit-app-for-review
http://www.100bestandroidapps.com/submit-android-app
http://www.askyourandroid.com/request-for-review/
http://dailyappshow.com/submit-an-app-for-review
http://www.appbrain.com/
http://www.androlib.com/
http://www.androidapps.com/
http://androidzoom.com/
http://www.androidappreviewsource.com/
http://android.appstorm.net/category/reviews/
http://androinica.com/contact-us/
http://www.androidappser.com/
I apologize for the unsorted list – I still have no idea how to arrange it.
Please share some more sites where you can place your own android-application.

2013年6月20日 星期四

Replacing relevant keywords on Google App Store description


Replacing relevant keywords on Google App Store description


Hi, as i wrote in my last article, i suggest you guy to put some related or high ranked Apps name in your own App’s description. I think that i must clarify about this method.
Some of you may think that I am teaching Keyword spamming, but i do not think so. We are using other highly searched keyword to increase our impression in Google Apps Store search engine.
The main point is, the keywords which you have added into your own description should be RELEVANT, if you just adding hundreds of irrelevant keywords, it should be keyword spamming.
Note: Keyword spamming is prohibited by Google , i surely do not recommend it for you.
The most interesting point is, how to make those highly ranked keywords to be a relevant content and plug into your app description?
I would recommend write a sentence which contains those keywords.
DON’T do this in your description
Keyword: organizers, organizer apps, time management, calendar, super man,folder organizer,evernote, times newspaper, google, android, sex…
DO THIS.
Comparing with the Folder Organizer, Evernote, our App xxx is the most suitable for you!
You can plan your time better to read Times Newspaper.

2013年6月19日 星期三

Trick Tricky Skill on Google Play Store Optimization ASO

Hi, i have launched my app on Google play store  4 days ago, but i only got 19 devices actively using my apps , or they forget to uninstall? over 44 downloaded.
here we face the biggest problem: how to promote your apps?
i searched over the internet, and found that some review sites can promote my apps on youtube, facebook, website… for about USD 149… wow..
Can my apps make me earn USD 149? i am not sure. But i found a FREE tricky skill to get more impression on google play store.
This is called tricky , but think that it is legal in google play store.
While Apple iTune store only search the keyword on title, Google Play Store search the keyword in the “Description” as well. This make me plenty of room to make trick , or may be you can called ASO.
We have to agree that, the “install rate” is come from “impression”, when your app even can not show up in your keyword, it never can be found, and no one install it. Even if your apps is money maker, no installation mean nothing.
Ok, my skill is, select some popular and hot , but less competitive (few competitor) keywords and put them into a sentence and paste it into your description.  Because google play store search description as well., see?
For example, if my apps is an organizer apps, the keyword of “organizer” should be very competitive… right? and i should search which one is the top downloaded and highest ranking apps related to my field? write down the apps name and write a sentence about it, put it into your description.

2013年6月13日 星期四

Best Chinese Sites to Buy Cheap Samsung Galaxy S4 Cases

It is now overwhelming reported that the release date of Samsung Galaxy S4 is being delayed due to storage issues. Pre-orders for the handset have far outstripped the availability in the US and the UK and as a result many shops have to delay the sales dates for the S4. The strong global demand for the Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone gives us a hint that the accessories for Samsung Galaxy S4 will be hot-selling in the coming weeks. Many re-sellers have started prowling the internet for best-margin accessories for the new model. But where to buy the best Samsung Galaxy S4 Cases and other related accessories at low prices? Chinese shopping sites are definitely a good choice. Read details below if you are interested in this topic.
While people have to pay dozens of dollars for a protective case for high-end smartphones like Samsung Galaxy 4 in the local stores in the US or the UK, they can easily get a lovely and quality case from a reliable Chinese site with only a few dollars for their beloved mobile device through an online transaction. The much lower prices do not mean the products are exterior in terms of designs or quality. Many of them look really amazing. You won’t get any difficulty in finding a creative or unique case that fits both your phone and your budget as long as you find a right site to trade with.
You can take a look at the cell phone cases or other accessories for sale on the most popular Chinese sites such as Basicase.com - Samsung Galaxy Accessories Dinodirect.com (read review), Focalprice.com (read review), Tmart.com (read review), Priceangels.com (read review)or Lightake.com (read review). Generally, if a Chinese site is offering great protective cases at competitive prices for the current best cell phone handset like Samsung Galaxy SIII, they are very likely to sell equally good cases for Samsung Galaxy 4. Actually, some of them have already listed Samsung Galaxy S4 cases into their stores to seize the attractive business opportunity. For instance, Ahappydeal.com (read review) have posted a banner promoting their Samsung Galaxy S4 accessories:
Deals on Samsung Galaxy S4 Accessories at Ahappydeal.com
The following elegant TPU full body case for Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300 is available at $6.99 plus free shipping at Miniinthebox.com (read review), the electronic gadget channel of the famous Chinese online store Lightinthebox.com  (read review).
TPU Full Body Case for Samsung Galaxy S3
This solid colored Samsung Galaxy S3 case has 9 colors to choose from. The simple look makes it a classic choice for S3 owners. Being one of the best-selling protective cases for Samsung Galaxy S3 at the site, it has received a 5-out-of-5-stars rating posted by over 70 customers. Besides this one, the site carries a wide range of other cases suitable for Samsung Galaxy S3 that come in various styles or designs, patterns, materials, colors or prices. Here are some of the top rated ones:
Top rated Samsung Galaxy S3 cases at Minithebox.com
Top rated Samsung Galaxy S3 protective cases at Miniinthebox.com
Surprisingly, I happen to notice that they have already launched a collection of cases for Samsung Galaxy S4 even though the model hasn’t been officially released yet. Likewise, you have a lot of options from looks, materials to prices. The collection includes soft cases, hard cases, PU leather cases, genuine leather cases, plastic cases, textile cases, bumper frame cases, slot-and-strap cases, cases with stand, cases with card slot, armband cases, full body cases, back cover cases and flip cover cases for Samsung Galaxy S4 I9500. The prices range from $2.129 to $11.49 – all for free shipping.
Top rated Samsung Galaxy S4 cases at Minithebox.com
Best Samsung Galaxy S4 protective cases at Miniinthebox.com
You can also find cases for other Samsung hot models including Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100. Other Samsung Galaxy accessories like chargers, adapters, screen protectors, stands, gadgets, external batteries or stylus and touch gloves are available there too.
Apart from Miniinthebox.com, there are several other trusted China-bases sites to shop for cheap Samsung Galaxy S4 cases and other accessories. Here are the top names:
Almost every Chinese site that offers Samsung Galaxy accessories provides free shipping service even if the order value is very small. You may find similar or the same style Samsung Galaxy SIV cases at different sites listed above. You know, they may cooperate with the same manufacturers of cell phone cases or accessories. I encourage you to use the sites to compare prices in order to get the best deals. At the same time, search our site for the latest coupon codes offered by the shopping sites before you place an order. You may find a discount code that applies to the product you want to order so that you can save more.
Discounted Samsung Galaxy S4 Cases at  Eforchina.com

2013年6月12日 星期三

Solved! How to Set Up Started With Amazon Product Advertising API

Solved! How to Set Up Started With Amazon Product Advertising API

Hi, here is Andy, and i am going to write this blog to tell you how to connect with Amazon Advertising API and get some output from the response XML.
If you are reading the Amazon API manual https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html, i am quite sure that you can not make your own PHP program to connect to the Amazon API and retrieve the variable successfully. Fortunately, I found that one guy in the internet who contribute a very very useful script to get value from the Amazon Advertising API, and we can edit from it.
You can get the source code to Access the Amazon Advertising API here.

What is the Product Advertising API

Amazon Product Advertising API is basically an API offered by Amazon for accessing data on every product that are being displayed at any Amazon site.

Create an Access Key

Just like most of the API that are offered by sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr we need to create an access key to be used by our application. The access key that were going to create can be used to authenticate requests to any Amazon Web Service API and that includes the Product Advertising API.
In order to obtain an access key first you have to sign up for an amazon web service account at: aws.amazon.com. Youre amazon web service account is different from your amazon account that you use for shopping so you have to create a new account if you don’t already have one. Along the sign up process you will be asked for your credit card number. If you don’t have a credit card fret not because you can just close the tab when you reach that point and then access thesecurity credentials page where you can create a new access key. All you have to do once you reach that page is to scroll down a bit so you will see the Access Credentials section which basically shows you a table of the access keys that are associated with your account. Just click on the “Create new access key” link to create a new access key. Once that’s done you can just copy and paste the access key ID and the Secret Access key to the PHP file where you’re going to include the class for accessing the api later on.
amazon access keyamazon access key
You can also sign up for an amazon affiliate account: Amazon affiliate program so that you will have your own affiliate ID which you can also use in the class for accessing the API.

API Basics

There are only 3 things that you have to keep in mind while working with the Amazon Product Advertising API:
  • Operations
  • Response Groups
  • Browse Nodes

Operations

Operations are like methods in a class. This tells the API what specific action to do. Some of the most commonly used operations are:
  • ItemSearch – commonly used for returning one or more items that satisfies the parameters specified
  • ItemLookup – commonly used for returning a single item but can also return more items if the ASIN’s (Amazon Standard Identification Number) are separated by comma.
  • SimilarityLookup – used for returning items that are similar to the ASIN that is specified in the request.

Response Groups

Response groups are pre-defined result sets in the API. They are used for specifying the data that is to be returned by the API. Some of the most commonly used response groups are:
  • ItemAttributes
  • EditorialReview
  • Images
  • Medium
  • NewReleases
  • Reviews
  • ItemIds
You can check out the full list of available response groups here: Response Groups
Looking at the documentation provided by Amazon I don’t think there’s a way to specify the specific fields that you want to return so the best thing to do when working with the API is to select a response group that suits your needs. Medium and Large response groups isn’t really the best response group to use if you only want to get the items ASIN, title and selling price. So its wiser to check out what specific data are being returned by each response group before picking something like the Medium response group which returns a whole bunch of data that you might not need in the app that you’re trying to build. Choosing the right response group will have a considerable effect on performance as you’re only getting what’s actually needed.

Browse Nodes

Browse Nodes in simple terms are product categories in amazon. If you have already tried shopping for a product at amazon you might have notice that there’s a general category that you select when searching for a product like Electronics, Aparrel, Books, etc. These are the major browse nodes. As you go inside that category you will then see some sub-categories. For example you’re browsing through the Books category. In the right side you will see sub-categories like arts & philosophy, business & investing, children’s books, etc. All of these are represented by node Id’s. You can find the full list of some of the major nodes in Amazon here: Browse Node IDs
As you might have noticed in the table in the link above, every amazon site has different sets of major nodes since not every site has the same items available.
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First Step: Connect to API and get the SimpleXMLElement Object
1. edit the amazon_api_class.php and insert your
private $public_key     = “AKIxxxxxxxxxx”;
private $private_key    = “NsECHcEu7J/a5DMk8ccSxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”;
private $associate_tag  = “xxxxxxx-20″;
the above sample is dummy, insert your own API access key.
2. upload the aws_signed_request.php and Example.php into the folder with the amazon_api_class.php
The aws_signed_request.php is a php file to create Amazon Signature to access the data from API, please do not edit it.
while the Example.php and the php to call the function. it is easy to modify.
I have upload the script as the demo of Amazon Advertising API
http://www.iammakingmoney.com/demo/amazonapi/Example.php
You will see a plenty of “SimpleXMLElement Object” and the real result of Harry Plotter Video Game is shown at the bottom of the page.
 Great! we have already get the data successfully!
Sales Rank : 8829
Feature point 2 : Become a master in stealth – Use the Invisibility Cloak, Polyjuice Potion and Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder to avoid detection and sneak past adversaries.
Search KEY : harry
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Step 2, get the Amazon Advertising API data as we want
1. Please confirm that you have done the previous step and load the information from API.
2. Now, we are going to get the specific data from the Amazon Advertisting API.  Please open the Example.php
See here
echo “Sales Rank : {$result->Items->Item->SalesRank}
”;
This code is calling “SaleRank” valuable from the response result.
But the common question is:
How to know the PATH to retrieve the specific valuable such as URL, ASIN and Editorial Review, and description?
the secret is, just Right Click mouse and view page source code, you will see the XML listed in a tidy manner!
For example if you want to get the value of  [totalpage] of the search result, the amazon advertising API code would be:
echo “Total Page : {$result->Items->totalpage}
”;
it is just TWO level under the $result, ITEMS and TOTALPAGE
One more example
How to get the ASIN ?
echo “ASIN : {$result->Items->Item->ASIN}
”;

One more extra!
How to get the Bulletin Point , Feature Point number two?
It is something about ARRAY, take this:
    echo “Feature point 2 : {$result->Items->Item->ItemAttributes->Feature[2]}
”;
Response Group of Amazon Advertising API
Right Click on the browser and view page source, you will see a tidy loop of XML

2013年6月5日 星期三

Reivew on De’Longhi EC155 15 BAR Pump Espresso and Cappuccino Maker

Reivew on De’Longhi EC155 15 BAR Pump Espresso and Cappuccino Maker


De’Longhi EC155 15 BAR Pump Espresso and Cappuccino Maker is a nice coffee machines. The price is right, only just USD 86 at amazon.com that 10bestreview.com found is the cheapest seller.
In this De’Longhi EC155 15 BAR Pump Espresso and Cappuccino Maker, with the swivel jet frother, it is easily to prepare latte and cappuccino for perfect drinks every time.
Also, you can brew espresso at the perfect temperature with two separate thermostats, which allow for water and steam pressure to be controlled separately.
The self-priming operation is the main selling point of this coffee machines. However, some of our reviewer complaints that it is not hot enough! They have to heat this machine up for a minimum of 15 minutes before making coffee. Even for 25 mins, some time the coffee was still not enough.Also, one of our reviewer comment that the steamed milk did not get hotter than 110 degrees ( Should be 130-160)!
To our surprise, this De’Longhi EC155 15 BAR Pump Espresso and Cappuccino Maker is quite easy to clean! The 35-onuce water tank is really great. With the indicator light, you can disassemble, clean, and reassemble to get back to making drinks quickly.
We found that Amazon is selling it at the lowest price, therefore we brought one De’Longhi Coffee Machines from Amazon.com and review it in our lab.

More coffee machines review on coffeemachines.10bestreview.com

DeLonghi Lattissima Plus Nespresso Capsule System Coffee Machine Review

Wanna get the feel of cappuccinos like enjoying at Starbuck? DeLonghi Lattissima Plus Nespresso Capsule System Coffee Machine is one of your best choice!
The “One-Touch Coffee” is the highlighted function of this DeLonghi model which make you enjoy coffee easier, simply slide the milk tank onto front of the machine.
The convenient illuminated control panel buttons allow you to choose your favorite drink with ease, with 3 milk and 2 coffee selections

We, 10bestreview.com have interviewed some users of this exciting DeLonghi Lattissima Plus Nespresso Capsule System Coffee Machine. Nearly 80% of users feeling that this Coffee Machine is very easy to use, make great coffee drinks and is a snap to clean up.
However, there are some short coming and complaints to this coffee machines.
Some reviewer saying that the coffee comes out not as hot as they would like and the Latte option makes small cups. Also, user have to clean milk thing after each use and too much froth.
In our opinion, DeLonghi may design a bigger water tank in its next edition.
Still, this coffee machine is a popular item selling on amazon.com and we found that the price on amazon is just USD 377 with Free Shipping. Greatly discounted from the original price USD 560.
Well, we can not expect perfect for such valuable price.