I renamed my app about 6 months ago, and I've been hearing reports every once in a while that some people cannot find my app in the market. Finally, someone I knew had the problem where I could look at it. My old name was a very unique name, my new name is a few common words. So it used to be:
com.company.uniquename : Uniquename
Now it is:
com.company.uniquename : Blee Blah Bloo
If I search the new name on my tablet, my app shows up 2nd behind a totally unrelated app. However if you search "Uniquename" it still shows up (as the only result). However on my friends device, nothing shows up if you search "Blee Blah Bloo". She scanned the QR code linking to my app and could download and run it fine. Do you have any thoughts as to why it wouldn't be showing up on some devices. It is a high maturity app, could that have anything to do with it?
It takes some time for google to re-index your app after you rename it. I expect given a few days, your app will show in related search queries, also taking into account the popularity of your app.
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We have an account in the playstore that published more than 50 apps everything works fine but this December something an expectedly changed All our apps are not available in playstore search
I know new Apps aren’t usually come top of the app search but this App isn’t new and has already downloaded 10K+ but it's not showing in the search even if I scroll down to bottom
Most of our apps have more reviews and downloads but I don’t know what’s going on.
Any ideas, please?
after the new Google Play Console surely something updated automatically geolocation.
All our apps are unavailable for 21 countries containing Somalia and Djibouti (a country I live) is part of that unavailable list.
All I do is update the list of Countries/Regions in the production to make apps available to all users
Thank you #Lemon for your comment
I have just published my app to Google Play Store but I couldn't seem to search for it in the store and it will only appear when I search by developer name. Every time I search by the name, other apps with similar name tend to appear and my app won't even appear at the bottom. Why wouldn't it even appear at the bottom and how can I make it show?
It can sometimes take a little while for Google's app search index to update, especially for new apps. Give it a few days, if it still doesn't appear contact Google Play developer support.
I have an app on google play over 5000000 downloads. And 20000+ downloads every day. When the designer changed the app icon to new good one ,the daily download decreased from 20000+ to 5000- . I don't think it's not good icon. I think may be there is a marketing strategy after icon changing google play changed app position on google play. Any idea about this?
Old Icon
New Icon
It is hard to pin down an exact reason. Maybe it was too similar to another app icon or simply new users didn't like it as much.
You can run A/B tests in the store listings, it's a hidden menu. Click Store Listing and beneath that, you should see experiments. You can run up to 4 icons (for example) and see which gets more downloads. This also works with the promotional video, screenshots, short app listing and full app listing.
There are a lot of customization choices as well.
I would make a few iterations of the logo, with different elements removed. I think the new one is a little too busy. try removing the phone on the left and right and see how users respond.
Sources:
Run A/B tests on your store listing
Increase installs with Store Listing Experiments
I think that the main reason is people knew the product. If they start looking for it now, they see something that they don't know as it has changed and will not download it as fast as before.
If everyone is used to the icon, your downloads will increase.
There is no ranking part that depends on the icon, so as I know.
I think there are 3 possible reasons:
1) Google dropped your app in the list because at the time you changed the icon, there where other apps added in this category. This made google to re-place and orden the apps. As your app was there longer and had a minor change, it was ranked as "old & going down", so it lost the confident place in the list.
2)Because of the new icon, people are not finding it as quick or they think the new icon is an actual scam version of your app, so they aren't downloading it anymore.
3)Your app simply got less popular. You got pretty much downloads, the rate was high. Maybe you reached all the people that needed this app and there are minus people wanting it.
Anyways,
maybe the download count raises again and you just need to wait a little week. It is very unlikely, but it also could just be a error at Google's side.
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Our app isn't showing up in the G Suite Marketplace search results whenever we search for it by name or via terms we know are in its description.
The direct link to our app's marketplace listing still works but it isn't showing up in the search results at all.
I've checked the manifest file and everything seems to be in order when I compared it to the sample here: https://developers.google.com/apps-marketplace/listing#resources_youll_need
Sidenote: I got in touch with Google Support via chat and even they couldn't point me to where exactly I should get help with this. Posting this here in hopes someone knows of a solution.
As I've read in this post, it appears the app is not allowed to be installed for non admin users so therefore the search results will not show the app. However, your app might take few minutes to several hours appear in search result. Check this Access Marketplace apps support page where it stated that "Most apps are available immediately after deployment. In some cases, there may be a delay of up to 24 hours before the application is displayed." Try to check on the next day and see if it works.
I just published my first app days ago but I'm having troubles finding it with the search option. The app has its download page, it's compatible with my device but even if I search the exact name it doesn't show up in the search results. So is it just a matter of time, or I'm missing something?