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ajk4550
ajk4550

Reputation: 741

Difficult to find an app published to the Google Play store

I have published an App to the google play store a couple months ago but I cannot seem to get any downloads. My question is, does google put a block where your app is hard to search for if it is your first app, such as to prevent spammers. I can only seem to find it when I type in my developer name "ajk4550"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.roberts.kaye_aaron.BibleVerse

Even searching Bible Verse Viewer it does not show up at all. Is there any tips for getting your app to show up when searching? I have even added this to the bottom:

Keywords: Bible, bible, Verse, verse, Viewer, viewer, christian, religious. I know it is live and working because I've downloaded it from the store on my phone. Any tips? Is there anything google does to make it harder?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 673

Answers (1)

matt1
matt1

Reputation: 1185

For what it is worth, it is saying that your app is incompatible with all of my devices (e.g. not compatible for Nexus 5? not compatible for Nexus 7? Seems odd). I suspect that Google will not show results for apps which are not compatible with my devices. If I am representative (and the 7 or so devices I have associated with my account are a fairly representative sample of "average" devices) that could go some way to help explain it.

There is also a lot of competition there for similar sounding apps with similar search terms. As others have commented, it seems that apps with high ratings and downloads appear first. You may need to do some marketing to promote it further to get some activity going.

Upvotes: 1

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