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How do you improve the position of an app in Android Market search results? The apps don't seem to be sorted on downloads.
Edit: The scope of this question is limited to working with the Android Market search engine, of which there's little or no information. I changed the title to make it clearer.
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Make an app everyone wants, that gets high user ratings and lots of downloads
Update your app frequently, since it shows up at the top in the "Just in"-tab on every update
Use your Social Media Network (Create Facebook groups, start promoting smart on Twitter). Set up a user wiki where everyone can add content, discuss your app and get a real buzz around it.
Buy Google listings
Create a Blog discussing the app and its outstanding performance
EDIT: Almost forgot: Your app should be free, with a possibility to go pro (= paid).
I would add to the answers:
make your app in a way that can be extended with plugins by 3rd party coders, that means they create and submit their apps to the Market as extensions to your app, and that will raise the results
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I apologize in advance if this is not the appropriate forum for this question. I looked at https://android.stackexchange.com/ and it appeared that it definitely wasn't appropriate for that forum.
My company has developed two apps. One for our business users and one for our consumer users. Marketing is very concerned about business users being confused by the offerings and has determined they would like to separate these apps.
We created two google accounts, paid the developer cost twice and used a different (legal) name for our company in one account from the other. Yet when we search for the business app it brings the consumer app back in the results.
We've been over all the information and there are no references between the two in either store listing. Anyone know why they might still be associated and what we can do to prevent it?
(Oddly enough I was able to talk to a google support person but they were not developer support and were unable to help me or direct me to anyone who could)
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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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In this video from Google I/O 2011, Google says you can use the Android Market for public and private Betas, how do you achieve a private Beta using the Market? Is there a way to make an App private? Because I cant find it.
http://youtu.be/twmuBbC_oB8?t=11m28s
you can make it private with a password lock on startup for example, or with an authentication system. (like google+ launch)
though be carefull with that because some users might not understand and downrate the app, so you need to state it in the description.
Reto does not say that there's a feature on Android Market to publish beta builds. It explains what techniques you can use to achieve that.
If you want a wide spread beta... you can use Android market to do that... you can use an access code or obscure the name ... it's important for users to understand that it's beta version ... so that people know they should't expect a finished product.
Also, he advice not to upload a faked package name (some developers would do that to make sure that users don't down rate the beta app). He advices to at least upload the package with the original name (without publishing) in order to reserve it.
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I'm developing an Android app and publishing it in Google Market. The problem is that the difference between v1.x and v2.x is huge, and like most products I wouldn't like to automatically provide Major upgrade for free for user of v1.
Is there any way to "separate" the payment for v1 and v2, and provide "upgrade license" for users of v1?
I must say admins on this forum are idiots, closed for a reason: "Questions on Stack Overflow are expected to generally relate to programming or software development in some way". How is it not related to software development? :)
Upgrades nope; kind of irritating that the market has no option for coupon codes or developer discounts etc. but that's the way it currently is.
Kind of a hack, but you could leave the name the same and add Pro or Plus and change your package name so for instance
com.myapplication.v1
becomes
com.myapplication.v2
Then to promote it you can use admobs inhouse promotion facility (assuming you have put admob v1) it's not perfect but it would work, then just turn on the add when you are ready with a new version.
An alternative is to structure the newer application so that the new features are in app payments, that would probably be the most user friendly approach, let them use them for N days then shut them down and offer the users the ability to pay for the newer features
I have also not looked at their licensing service much, it might be possible to do something with that I suppose but I suspect not.
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I just published my first application to the android marketplace. However, when I search, I have to enter the exact name in order for it to come up. Is there a way to enter app tags?
In the market app, my app doesn't even show any 'related' apps either.
How can I make my App more readily viewable?
Thanks
Adding a tags section to your description is helpful and will get your app to show under more search phrases. The catch is, there is more to Google's algorithm that generates hits for your app. Here are some caveats that I've noticed after doing some simple research:
The title of the app gets a higher priority than the description. So a tag in the description called "free wallpaper" isn't going to generate a higher return match than an app named "free wallpaper" unless other factors contribute and make it higher.
The number of app downloads generate a higher percentage.
I'm sure there are others but these were the main two contributors I could deduce from my research.
I added a "TAGS:" section to the bottom of the description. In it I just list single terms separated by commas.