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by mattberg 5094 days ago
Anyone else find it interesting he is so against black box tactics, yet his app name is "Timer :". I guess that is better than "Timer+++".
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fsckin 5094 days ago
The developer knows how App Store SEO works, but this seems like an attempt to get some free press using the hotbutton complaint about App Store SEO as a ploy.

Here's the list of apps they've published: "Timer :" "Mirror ◎" "Launch Center Pro" "Gas Cubby - Fuel Economy (MPG, Mileage) Calculator and Car Maintenance & Service Log" "Trip Cubby • Mileage Log for Tax Deduction or Reimbursement" "Tweet Speaker - Listen to Twitter"

Guess which ones have more sales? Their better SEO optimized apps sell better. SEO could have scaled his $5k/month (not bad!) results by a factor of 3x, 5x? Maybe more?

This app doesn't even rank for it's own name (searching for "Timer :". Don't complain about it, fix it!

Perhaps it's the best timer application ever, and it might very well be... but this seems like poor form.

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mattberg 5094 days ago
Definitely agree that he knows how to work the SEO. It just strikes me as funny to complain about a competitors app using his app name in their keywords, yet using "Timer :" is basically just using someone else's app name with a seemingly arbitrary character at the end. "Angry Birds :" sounds like a cool game.
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kaiwetzel 5094 days ago
Good point. Maybe that's the reason why it's not found by search, too. I think claiming the app's name was "Timer" when in fact it is called "Timer :"[1] is dubious. Ok, maybe the app stores search should prioritize highly rated apps but it seems there are simply a large number of apps having "Timer" in their names.

(Besides, relying on the app store as such for marketing is a gamble, that should be established by now ...)

[1] how did the author come up with "Timer :", it's just weird, I think.

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