Google Play Ranking !!
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r3L4x
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- Nov 26, 2014
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Guys, in few days I who's doing some tests and today I started to think what new I done with this app and I understood that I added 5 tags as console asked my. So yesterday I found that when I enter my app I did not get similar apps in right side. Today after removing tags and updating app, I get similar apps on right side. After few days I will gonna test more and post some info.
sDem
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not reall my apps ben in the store for almost 2 months and nothing happened they got indexed for like a week and disappeard again
sDem
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that's really intresting if you think about right after they added tags the issue appeared probably it has something to do with it
r3L4x
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Yes the thing is that I published other new app 2019 May and after few updates it ranked good, this app won`t rank.
r3L4x
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Another few interesting things I found.
1)You don't need to use "app_name" you can use "appname" and it is possible to find app If have 4 words "app_name app_name". You even you can use "nameapp", or "name_app", just type in your name backwards. Same is with package name
2) One aso tool cannot find my app in USA, but it can be found in Japan. I did not added any restrictions for any country when I published.
3) Yesterday my app ranked in Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal and Hungary. Today all countries out...
1)You don't need to use "app_name" you can use "appname" and it is possible to find app If have 4 words "app_name app_name". You even you can use "nameapp", or "name_app", just type in your name backwards. Same is with package name
2) One aso tool cannot find my app in USA, but it can be found in Japan. I did not added any restrictions for any country when I published.
3) Yesterday my app ranked in Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal and Hungary. Today all countries out...
The same thing happening to me. The game would get indexed on some random keywords in some countries and disappears the next day. But there is something very disturbing I've noticed.
I have 2 Google play accounts a personal account for my fun projects (let's call it App A) and my company account where I publish my serious games (App B). They are both linked (same banking information) for taxes reasons.
I launched a game App C at the start of November, it didn't get indexed despite many thousands of download from ads and a good KPI.
This is where it's getting weird : "App C" is not indexed in the search, but my App A and App B can be found when typing "App C" despite having none of the keywords of App C . This was not the case before launching App C (before November)
sDem
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me too i noticed yesterday few impressions in admob which they ranked somewhere on 3 of my apps but now they all back to 0 again
sDem
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at this point i'm starting to think this not a bug , maybe they changed the way apps get indexed or they go through some sort of manual review before they appear on the store
r3L4x
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Be careful, as google play only allow one account per person.
This cannot be right, as after upload apps get checked and added in google play, it is like shadow ban and believe my, shadow bans are real. I got one of them in past, my app downloads just dropped 80%, no messages from google play, I even tried live chat, but as everybody knows their live chat is worthless... All the time I whose getting message, that my app can be found using package name and after that I can download their virtual book about aso. Same whose with this app.
I think they made this future as they cannot handle all apps, for today they have to many apps in market and they are happy for results, but more and more people come to this business. So from my opinion, they add shadow bans to all new apps until they hit some number of downloads. Any developer uploads new app, get 0 installs and what he do? Quits, or orders ads from adsense. Google is just a big corporation that supports monopoly and only cares about profits. It whose same with seo, now it is same with aso, as all experienced in aso developers is cancer for google. I made 1,5 million downloads with 0 investments.
No, I had the confirmation with google that it's allowed. One account is in my name, and the other in my company name.
But if one account is banned they all share the same sanction
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I want to explain everyone, it's fckin and temporary bug, because even voodoo games got deindexed but my guys says:
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worked for them in some cases, another guy is publishing racing games (unaffected overall), so I assume it's just a bug, google is loosing money for advertisement, because big brands like voodoo will just wait for fix.
Why fix in Google Play are slow?
They told it on Google I/O, that nobody have knowledge about Google Play algorithm because it's dynamicaly set up by AI from factors they give it to eat. Any fix in Google Play requires a lot of people and resources.
Suggestion is just wait and upvote bug report
https://support.google.com/googlepl...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
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worked for them in some cases, another guy is publishing racing games (unaffected overall), so I assume it's just a bug, google is loosing money for advertisement, because big brands like voodoo will just wait for fix.
Why fix in Google Play are slow?
They told it on Google I/O, that nobody have knowledge about Google Play algorithm because it's dynamicaly set up by AI from factors they give it to eat. Any fix in Google Play requires a lot of people and resources.
Suggestion is just wait and upvote bug report
https://support.google.com/googlepl...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
sDem
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what's up vinkuu long time no see , well at this point it's just ridiculous for it to be just a bug it's already been more than 2 months . i don't know i guess we just have to wait and see what's gonna happen
- Jan 22, 2008
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nah man
yesterday media started writing about it and guess what, I checked appbrain, appradar and all apps got ... unkranked, even youtube, so I guess someone catched the rumor and started work on it
btw. my apps got ranked easily but published 6 weeks ago, I have them in search and fighting for major keywords, so it's not like every new app is not in search
sDem
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nah man
yesterday media started writing about it and guess what, I checked appbrain, appradar and all apps got ... unkranked, even youtube, so I guess someone catched the rumor and started work on it
btw. my apps got ranked easily but published 6 weeks ago, I have them in search and fighting for major keywords, so it's not like every new app is not in search
i agree not every app is facing this issue after check new apps you can see apps published recently ranked but most apps published in september and october face this
- Jan 22, 2008
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100% bug, if farming.io from voodoo have the same problem, these guys are spending $40k/day for ads and loosing search engine for them is a disaster. I think big brands started calling to them and yesterday after publication on androidauthority something weird happened. Suddenly, all apps in Play Store were unkranked, even facebook, youtube, blabla. It looks like someone:
-frozen store ranks for fixing search issue
-tried fix and broken more xD
let's wait and see what will happen
Google cannot allow even voodoo will run to iOS nah man
yesterday media started writing about it and guess what, I checked appbrain, appradar and all apps got ... unkranked, even youtube, so I guess someone catched the rumor and started work on it
btw. my apps got ranked easily but published 6 weeks ago, I have them in search and fighting for major keywords, so it's not like every new app is not in search
Same for me my app published on 6 Nov never ranked until I make update 1 week ago of the category/title/description, the wired thing is my app ranked and discover on my old title/description!! google going crazy these days
I did something similar, I changed the name of my developer account (by the way it took 9 days to approve) and my non indexed game can only be found by the old name of my account.
While my older games (> 1 year) can be found with the new developer account name