Cross promotion is a good app promotion method, but not so effective. Based on my experience, I recommend you promote your app with the following method - the most recommended method:
Data shows that over 65% users discover new apps by browsing or searching keywords in the app stores, and most of them just browsing the top 10 apps, then the higher your app rank in the app store, the more people it reaches; the more people it reaches, the more downloads will generate. App Store Optimization, it’s a progress of improve your app visibility in the app stores, the it’s the most effective app promotion method.
There are 2 methods to increase your app visibility with app store optimization. The first one is increasing your app ranking in the app store;the other one is increase your app keyword coverage.
Keywords play an important role in app store ranking algorithm, then to increase app ranking in the app stores, the most important part is getting the right keywords. When you choose keywords, you should take relevance, competition and traffic into consideration, you can evalute the 3 factors with app keyword tools, for example, app annie. You can target keywords with low competition and lower search volumes firstly. Besides add the important keywords in your app title and description to increase the app ranking, if your want to increase your app ranking in a short time, I highly recommend you buy keyword search installs, which can increase your app ranking instantly, ASOTOP1 provides this kind of service, they support multiple countries and install types for you to choose from, get your app targeted precisely. Your app ranking will be improved in 8~10 hours, if there is no improvement, money back guarantee.
The more keywords your app covers, you more chances it will get to be noticed and installed.Follow the following ways to increase your keyword coverage:
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[li]Avoid Repeating Keywords[/li][li]Use digits not words[/li][li]Use Shorter Keywords[/li][li]Wipe off connectors and stop words[/li][li]Get keyword reviews[/li][/ul]
About the keyword reviews, besides increase the keyword coverage, it can also increase your app ranking and download rates. Those apps which have much more positive reviews rank much higher than others. And about 95% users will take the app reviews as one of the most important reference factors to judge the app, and most people prefer to download an app which has much more positive reviews.