Spur Your Flipbook App Downloads With These 3 SEO Tips

If you develop a flipbook app, whether it is a digital magazine, newspaper or a catalog etc., the next thing you want to work on is your app visibility. It is important that your digital publication app is discove ccrable to be able to play in mobile conversion. If your app can’t be found, it can’t be downloaded or help convert.

But how do you optimize your flipbook when it doesn’t use traditional hyperlinks? Fortunately, today’s SEO has extended it’s sphere to cover app discoverability. There are many ways to promote apps today: advertising, optimizing for app store algorithms, or even just promoting the mobile app via your website.Google has also been adding some new ways for mobile apps to be discovered organically and it’s something that you shouldn’t be missing in your flipbook app optimization process.

Below are Rahul Varshneya‘s  three SEO tips to boost app downloads. It’s a great starting point for building your content’s presence on the web and leveraging the traffic flowing to your flipbook app!

1. Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) keyword strategy for the app’s landing page

On-page optimization with the relevant set of keywords of your landing page or the microsite is crucial for Google or other search engines to know what keywords to rank your webpage for.While the norm is to use the Google Keyword Planner tool to discover the right set of keywords (those that constitute popular searches) that relate to your product, LSI keywords play a big role in smart detection of your landing page in Google’s search results.

LSI keywords are synonyms and closely related words and they help Google understand what your page is all about. When users are searching for the word ‘Cars’, Google should know whether your search is about the movie ‘Cars’ or the vehicle. And Google can tell from the webpage’s LSI keywords whether it relates to one or the other.

This strategy by Brian Dean will help you identify the relevant LSI keywords.

Search for your main keyword in Google. Let’s assume your app is a solution to people’s sleeping problems and your main keyword is ‘Sleep Problems’.  Now, there are three ways to detect LSI keywords.

1. When you enter the keyword in Google search window, the drop down of associated keywords are LSI keywords.
2. Google will highlight (bold) the text that is relevant in the search results. So if you scan the results, you will see words such as ‘sleep disorders’ that are LSI keywords.
3. Right at the bottom of the search results page, Google showcases additional keywords that are ‘searches related to your keyword’, such as ‘how to sleep better’, ‘narcolepsy’, insomnia, etc.

When incorporating keywords in your landing page or the microsite, ensure it’s not about the density or repetition of the main keyword, but that it also includes the LSI keywords. You can also write blog posts that target the LSI keywords.

2. Build backlinks by tracking your competitor’s links

Building backlinks to your landing page or the mobile app’s microsite is an essential SEO strategy to increase the search ranking. The more authoritative websites link to your app’s landing page, the higher it would rank in search listings.

This one strategy, by Neil Patel, would help you identify the relevant authority websites and blogs and also help you build those backlinks quickly for your app’s landing page.

The first step is to identify your competitors that have great amount of traction and are popular in the app store charts. Once you’ve identified those, use one of the backlinking tools such as ahrefs or Cognitive SEO to look for all the pages that link back to the competitor app.

Now, you have to sift through the relevant websites or blogs that list the competitor app and write to the author to consider including a link to your app. Of course, give them a reason why they should include your app in the list. Not all would respond or be convinced, but once they do, you will start to notice the results – traffic to your webpage, downloads of your app and a higher ranking for your keywords.

3. Increase time on page and reduce bounce rate

Google’s algorithm tracks one important aspect of every webpage that affects its ranking – bounce rate and the time spent by a visitor on the page.

The higher the time spent by people on a webpage, the better its chances of ranking higher in searches. Google’s sole aim is to help people land relevant information through their search. They don’t want people clicking on a webpage in their search result and then hitting the back button quickly to go back to another result.

This would happen if the results were not relevant to the user. So the tricky bit here is how do you increase a visitor’s time spent on your landing page when it’s a product information page?

Rather than talk about the app’s features, talk about the problem you’re solving. First, bait the user with the problem statement itself. For example, sleep problems, as discussed in the earlier point. Then, hook the user by describing the fact that it can be solved and showcase the numbers (benefit in days, percentage, or any other quantifiable metric) or at a high-level, how the problem can be solved.

Once you’ve established these two, then begin to talk about how your app solves the problem in detail.

This strategy helps to increase stickiness for your mobile app’s landing page or the microsite and Google sees it as a relevant result for the searches performed, thus placing it higher in ranking.

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