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The Best Social Media Platforms for Marketing a Gaming App

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Once you’ve created a gaming app, the next step is to think about how you’re going to promote it. Naturally, the more people who see your app, the more downloads you’ll receive. When you consider that there are over 2.5 billion gamers across the world, it’s easy to see that one of the best ways to market your app would be by turning to social media. To yield the results you want, here are five of the best social media platforms to market your gaming app on.

Facebook

Facebook attracts over 2.6 billion users worldwide every month, making it by far the most popular social media channel. To get your gaming app noticed, there are a variety of methods you can use to engage audiences, such as by creating an official brand page, joining gaming communities, and posting regular content, video, and imagery. You can also use Facebook Ads that appear in the feed of your targeted users as posts that are labelled as ‘sponsored’.

Instagram

Instagram has more than 1 billion engaged users from across the globe, making it another social media channel you should tap into to promote your gaming app. If you decide on using Instagram, your ads need to include eye-catching visuals. You must also strategically use hashtags to boost the visibility of your posts. Instagram is home to thousands of gaming influencers who you can partner with in improving your audience reach.

Twitter

Twitter is home to more than 300 million users, 37% of which are between the ages of 18 and 30. If your gaming app is primarily designed for a younger audience, Twitter is the perfect place to showcase it. Like with Instagram, you must use the correct hashtags to boost the audience reach of your posts. Whether you’ve created a betting app for online pokies, or adventure gaming is your forte, many gaming app developers use Twitter as a marketing channel.

TikTok

TikTok is one of the newer social media platforms that gaming app developers can’t ignore. Since the channel has roughly 1 billion active users monthly, the platform is great for targeting a younger teen audience. Content shared on TikTok is fun and quirky too, making it ideal for mobile games. Although this platform is still young, TikTok may become just as popular as Instagram and Facebook in the near future, meaning it makes sense to use this platform to promote.

YouTube

YouTube is another important social media channel for mobile game publishers. The reason for this is simple: it’s all about video. To give audiences an idea of what to expect from your gaming app, you can publish trailers, gameplay videos, and even podcasts to advertise your app. Make sure you interact regularly with your audience to build a community, and most importantly, boost your download count.

Even if you believe your mobile game is one of a kind, unless the right people see it, you can’t expect a surge in downloads. Social media is an inexpensive, effective way to build your brand and help you market your app to the right audience.

How to start a new wordpress blog in 15 minutes without breaking a sweat

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In this new era, things are pretty easy to do with point – touch and click convenience. Starting a brand new wordpress blog has also become a lot easier with this easy with this click and install technology. [ Blog post updated May 2021]

Below I have given an easy to follow guide to install your new wordpress blog  with bluehost in minutes. I have chosen bluehost, because they have also been the official hosting partner to the most popular  website and blogging platform online – wordpress.org and are also recommended by them.

Bluehost has come out with a  new deal at $2.95 for limited time, and its updated just below.  The 1 click install comes with all of their plans to make the process of creating a blog so much more easier and quicker.(this deal wont last long)

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When you start to think  and ask yourself Will I be able to make a blog on my own,  you might  start to get  a bit worried or  stressed. But let me assure you, – it’s not that hard as many people would make you think. With the 1 click install and new custom software, making the whole website process has become quite easy peasy (really!). I will show you how below. Here is a current bluehost offer to get your started

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[Below is my detailed step by step starting guide.]

I am going to give you the most detailed and easy to set up guide to get your shiny new blog started today, so there is no more reasons for you to slack off and you can get it literally started today – Like now!

You could most definitely do the whole website install in 5 to 10 minutes if you’re that good, but  for some it may take a tad bit more time than five minutes (15 to 20 mins max)

Installing and Setting up a wordpress blog Easily

 

I have created tutorials on getting your website started before, but people have given me feedback that it’s not detailed enough and had too much fluff . So here is a brand new one.

This is a  “barebones get your blogging started today” kind of guide with as many pictures as i could gather –  that I could include in one mega post . So don’t be shy and get started with your online venture already!

I deal with many hosting companies and bluehost is one of my favourite hosting companies. I recommend them just because they are always priced nice and affordable and have reliable hosting and they are also easy to use.

In fact they have been the top recommended hosting company by wordpress.org. I also recommend the “WordPress CMS” which is one of the easiest to use website software.They are many top Australian websites using wordpress including HeraldSun which uses the more pricey enterprise version VIP wordpress.

Below is the main hosting pricing plans for blue host called the

  • Basic plan
  • Plus plan
  • Pro plan.

[Prices for hosting plans below]

The plus plan is most popular for a reason, if you decide to start another blog then you can use the same hosting account for more blogs – anywhere up to 10 blogs.

Off course the basic plan makes sense if you are just starting out and on a budget, which most of us are.

I know when I was looking to start my first blog, the price was the most important factor in addition to reliability of the provider

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[Most plans include one free domain]

 

The next couple of steps  to start a blog, could easily be done in a couple of minutes.

 

Step 1 – Choose a hosting plan that is suitable for you

 

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At this stage, click on select – after selecting your plan if you have not got a domain and you are making use of the free domain name with your bluehost plan, you can then search for that free domain name over here.

 

Step 2 – Choose your  domain name

If you already got a domain name that you want to use with this webhosting account then you can transfer it to your blog hosting as well on this screen.

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Step 3  – Provide the Name and details for billing  and your confirmation emails 

Next you put in your payment details and then go to the next step of choosing your plan and optional extras you would choose.

 

 

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To get the $3.95 deal you will need to get the 36 month webhosting plan. I will be honest and tell you, that I thought this to be a trick to get me to sign up for a longer period. But in fact it saved me money over the longer period when I purchased my first hosting as the price rose the next year.

I managed to escape that price rise due to being on a longer plan. But you can choose a plan according to your ownr budget  and affordability.

At the minimum, I would recommend you get the domain privacy and site back up pro as optional extras, if you can afford it.

The domain privacy stops people from snooping on your name and address which would need to be listed in the registration details when you buy a domain name.

The site back up is regular backups of your website  that the hosting company  keeps just in case of any emergency  or hacking  of website by outsiders.

 

Step 4 –  Select  your Plan or Package and any Optional extras

 

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Please note down your login email/name and password that you will register with bluehost to login into WP admin later.

When you finish purchasing your hosting, you can login to your hosting account immediately with the login and password details.

Below is the wordpress backend cpanel sitehosting screen once you login top admin area. The website login area is different from this login area.

 

Step 5  – Click on the install word-press icon

 

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Step 6 – Install WordPress

You will see this screen next (to start a brand new wordpress blog install), click start

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Step 7 –  Select the free domain name you got or then the domain name you transferred in this screen and then click to install your blog

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The wordpress website/blog installation process will begin now.

WordPress can be customised to be used as a blog or a business website. All you need to do is change the theme to change the blog design and look of the blog/website to any sort of website you need.

 

 

Step 9  –  Blog is installing

 

Themes are available on the internet from as low as $10 a theme and also for free from within your wordpress blog.

 

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That’s it, follow the instructions on the next pages to finish, and your blog should get installed in the next couple of minutes and you should be ready to blog.

 

You will get sent an email with login details

 

Your blog is ready and set up, now all you have to do is write content and tweak your blog further if you need by logging into the admin area of your  blog.

 

I suggest you first  write up and article or two  on your blog as your first priority and then explore further  options from within your admin area over a period of time  to improve your website functionality, design and SEO.

 

Remember that this special price of $3.95 a month can be claimed by our digital grog readers by signing up from this tutorial here and you get this special price for 36 months + a free domain name.

The type of web host you choose is an incredibly important choice for what type of website you create. The type of server you choose impacts elements like performance, security, scalability, and management level of your website. Shared hosting is a great choice for beginners and smaller websites. It’s cost-effective and doesn’t require lots of technical knowledge to get started.

The good thing about getting a bluehost hosting account is that they not only offer other popular website software like Drupal and Joomla apart from word-press, but also offer a range of other software’s like Coppermine (you can create your own image gallery online which other people can contribute too), PHBB forums (you can create a forum of your own) and many more useful scripts.

I hope this detailed picture tutorial helped you in some way. Do leave me a comment below to show you luv or just ask a question and I will try to answer it soon as I can. Let me know if there is anything worth adding to this tutorialonce you have gone through the same process and I shall add it in or update in a new post.

Good luck on your new journey!!

/jeff

Article originally published Jul 13, 2017 at 02:42 updated on 29/05/2021

Daymm !! Domains Cheap as chips

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