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I published 2 android apps recently First app Second app and they are found by searching on google play. But when i search them on google search they don't show up. What can be the problem ? Also is there a way that google play will show my app a bit earlier, like finding some keywords to use or something ?
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And will be thankful if someone lets me know if the apps look alright.
While publishing your app, you are notified that it takes time for the app to appear throughout the Play Store. Sometimes it appears on desktop version n later on mobile app. It takes about 3-4 hours before everyone gets it.
No, Google specifically prohibits the use of misleading keywords to increase your app's rank in the search. Make sure you include only relevant keywords in the description. The title can also contain extra words so that users find your app faster (e.g. Google's Hangouts app title on the Play Store is Hangouts (Replaces Talk))
Sometimes many applications in google play may have similar name of your application.
Give some fancy unique name to your application .
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I have uploaded an Android App on Google Play Store and with a search today i can see this: http://www.androidappsgame.com/library-quiz/el
How come that my android app is uploaded to androidappsgame.com without my permission?
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This may or may not help, but make sure to check that first box in your console
The app is NOT on that store. That store is an aggregate site that grabs info from Google Play and makes it searchable. And it's not a very good one at that.
For the record, all of my apps are there too. I just looked. Even my newest ones are there.
You don't need to worry about anyone taking your app from Play and making it available elsewhere. It's just not gonna happen. And even if it did, 99% of devices out there have the system secured so you can't install stuff like that anyway.
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Will implementing the App Index API help improve the visibility of my app while using Google Search if it is not yet installed on a device\tablet? Considering that my app does not have any related website content to display.
I just want my app to be more visible to users searching for certain specific keywords e.g. 'recipes', 'wifis' etc.
Here is the API i am talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aISUYHTkTOU
In the video they do say that they have discovered new apps, apart from re-engaging with the old ones but does not say how.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
App Indexing associates your app with urls, either website urls or custom-scheme urls that refer to content that your app displays. So if you have content in your app that you can define custom urls for (like android-app://my.package.name/...), then even if the content is not on a website, you can implement app indexing and have that content show up in Google search results (along with a prompt to install your app if they don't have it installed.)
However, if you don't have any content that your app displays, then app indexing won't help you. It's not a general tool to put your app in search results unrelated to your content.
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Last night I released a google play app and this morning it was in the play store and had even received a review.
Right now I checked and it isn't there anymore but it still says published.
Could it have been removed?
Last time i published an application, i couldnt see it in searchs for 1 week. Everything is possible with google play actually. But if they removed your application, u supposed to have a mail from them for sure. If u didnt, probably its a temporary problem. Wait today and if it wont be fixed, send a mail to them.
Try to go on this url using your application package:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=HERE_GOES_YOUR_PACKAGE
If it is there, you just have to wait for google to index it, sometimes it takes a couple of days.
You can also try this, that lists all your applications, this needs even more time then the app to get updated:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=HERE_GOES_YOUR_PUBLISHER_NAME_ESCAPED_URL
Example for my app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.cpiacente.fticker
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Cristian+Piacente
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I had uploaded my app on google play yesterday, today if I search for my app's title in google play, my app appears after 80 to 100 apps??
Why is it so, any suggestions ???
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Thats because of your app name, rating, #downloads.
1. Make sure your name is not used by others or at least not too often
2. Make sure you receive as much stars / ratings as possible (ask users to rate inapp). The better/more rankings you app has the more its likely that your app will be displayed first
3. The downloadcounter also affects the sorting.
It is possible that the name you gave to ur app can be common and app appearing in the market is shown by default according to their tag.try to give uniqueness to ur app and than try.It also depend on the number of times downloaded by users,likes,comments made on them,etc,etc... As the rates of your app increases it will automatically be up in chart.
the ratings are based on popularity, no of hits etc. You should also try to promote your app.
The documentation talks about it.
Preparing promotional materials.
To fully leverage the marketing and publicity capabilities of Google
Play, you need to create promotional materials for your application,
such as screenshots, videos, graphics, and promotional text.
also check out :
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4058297/how-to-promote-android-app
and this
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I published the below android app in the market 2 days ago. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatappnext.topmusicvideos.
Even if i search by the exact app name the app is not appearing in the first page of Google play page. However when i search for other apps they appear as the first result in the Google play page when i search using the exact app name. Am i missing something. Kindly help me figure out if i am doing something wrong.
Well, I just understood that you are asking for the bad ranking of your app in the search results.
The ranking algorithm doesn't order the results only by app names, it also includes app ratings, number of downloads, and probably some other stuff. The app name and description are used to filter the results and remove irrelevant ones, but I'm not even sure if they are used to order the results.
In fact, it is probably a bad idea to use three very common keywords as your app title. Google tries very hard to downrank this kind of titles, because they try to order the apps by quality rather than keywords.
It would be too easy to make a poor app and appear first in the search results just because the other ones don't use the right keywords. I don't say that your app is bad, but google algorithm might think so.
It may take some time for your app to get indexed in the search results. The site updates their listings in a few days. Wait for sometime and it will appear.
I found it by application package name and even by application's name :)