Tagged: iphone

Mar 22

Do You Pay For Apps?

By Kelsey Jones

draw something thumb Do You Pay For Apps?As a new iPhone owner (made the switch last week after my HTC Evo speaker was going in and out and got into some shady malware apps), I was eager to download all the existing apps I had on my Android, as well as finally download all the games and apps clients, friends, and business colleagues are telling me to check out. I’ve been sucked into Draw Something and Scramble With Friends makes my heart happy.

All my app downloads made me start thinking, “When does a person love an app enough to buy it?” I have never bought an app, rather preferring to exit out of ad screens or closing my browser quickly when I accidentally do click on a banner ad. But this minor inconvenience has never bothered me enough to actually purchase the paid version.

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Dec 22

SEO for Mobile Applications

By Kelsey Jones

Although it is a fairly new platform, mobile applications are growing in the thousands every year, most with free and/or paid versions. The free versions usually have ads to cover the development costs and eventually produce a revenue.

Even though mobile applications can bring in thousands in revenue for developers and companies, the thought of using SEO for application descriptions seems very rudimentary and even “Black Hat” when compared to the traditional online SEO applications that we use for websites. Many application descriptions include keywords at the end:

Screenshot Taken 12/22/2011

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Mar 18

B-Sides: Need a Flashlight? There’s an App for That.

by Bethaney Wallace

Photo Courtesy of apple-touch.com

 

 

The iPhone. A handheld device that allows a user to run their entire life from a single, battery operated computer. The phone, which has taken AT&T customers by storm (and the world) was introduced less than three years ago, sold over 8 million phones by the time it was one year old. Although some think it’s the best idea since selling beer on Sundays, some people (like me) think it’s more of a cult.

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