I've just uploaded my first app on the market. It all went and looks well. I tried a few keywords to search for it, words that I also have in my description AND promo text, but some words don't find my app, some do.
How does the keyword strategy work for an app on the market, I couldn't find no documentation on it.
I think the only place this is documented is the Publishing Your Applications page in the Dev Guide. At the bottom of this page you'll find the meaning of various Market URLs, including:
market://search?q=<substring>
Searches all public fields (application title, developer name, and application description) for all applications. Returns exact and partial matches.
Since that URL brings up the Market's "Search" activity with the substring/query in the search field, I think it's a reasonable assumption that the behaviour is intended to be the same when a user initiates a search manually.
I note that promo text is not mentioned as a searchable field, but why a search would not find something that's in the description, I don't know.
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I searched on youtube, through search engines, also here on StackOverflow and I did not find anything that would at least remind you of what I am looking for.
We've just released an app to the PlayStore, and this app name contains a hyphen, which makes it unfindable in the PlayStore unless I enclose the name with double-quotes.
As far as the package name goes, the hyphen is replaced with an underscore there to follow the docs' conventions, so no problems there...
Can I fix the findability while keeping the hyphen, or alternatively can I remove the hyphen and republish without causing trouble for users who've already downloaded the app with its current name.
First off, some general information about this can be found here
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9042516?hl=en
The title that is displayed in the playstore is just something you can change at any time through the developer console.
The actual title of the application can be changed in the AndroidManifest
<application
...
android:label="#string/app_name"
.../>
As long as you don't change the package name there should be no problem for current users.
Also, in my experience it takes quite some while before playstore search indexing is able to easily find your app with generic terms and strings. Brand new apps just have trouble showing up in general.
There is a reason why you can find WhatsApp with a completely misspelled word like: what-app. Basically the bigger you are, the more easily people can find you.
Okay so this question has already been asked here but was not fully answered:
Android app not searchable by Title - only by package name
This guy had the exact same problem as me. My app has been up for about 3 days and I can't see it even if search by the exact name and the developer name too. However, when I don't put a space in the title, it shows up. Now I know that common words in title will result in a less likely chance of app being shown in search results, but the problem is the app doesn't show up AT ALL, even if I scroll all the way down. My problem isn't with where my app is in the list, but that it isn't shown even if I scroll to the bottom of the 250 results. Could my manifest be causing this?
Google Play store doesn't use just the title to arrive at the results. There's an article here that explains somewhat what they use when searching: http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2013/05/17/google-discloses-how-search-for-google-play-works-for-the-first-time-12-percent-of-dau-search-for-apps-daily/.
Unfortunately, if you app uses common words (like meal and timer) and has just been published so there are no reviews and +1's, it's bad news for you - it'll get buried in the results.
I've already added my app to google play, I used the android develop console and everything is right.
But right now you only can access to my app using the name, but I would like to add some keywords, and my app apears easily.
how can I do that?
Thank you in advance
Google automatically picks up keyword from your title and app description. However, adding something like Keywords: keyword1, keyword2, keyword3 to your description is considered keyword spamming by Google, especially if you add the title, or the developer name of a competing app. Instead, try to include your keywords in the description in a natural manner.
I suggest you choose the right category for your app forexample if it is a riddles app, it would be best to choose the trivia category where users will easily access yo product. i also do agree with user1256477 that choosing the right keywords forexample words like brain teaser will some how help.
Here is a link that may be of help.
Feel free to check out the description on my app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dogmaz.mindtwist
I do not see a means to put key words or meta tags on an app when publishing it to the android market. Is there a way to do this? Such that if one builds an app for the physical therapy industry a PT an search PT. The current search only seems to search the app title.
I put meta keywords in application description in Play Console. The search searches app title and description.
Example:
i added a keyword portion as krtek suggests. I hope this is okay to do and not frowned upon like putting keywords at the bottom of a web page for search engines to "find".
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