ranking on playstore

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• fxone Member

  April 2013 edited April 2013

  @arcadia no one knows it: how ranking algorithm works and probably it's dynamically changing; see here:
  http://www.apptamin.com/blog/optimize-play-store-app/
  
  Pay Google Play 70,000 euro by Chillingo as Rovio did it for Apple Store to get front page, then they'll tell you for sure :-)) I'll tell you only funny story about one aspect of publishing, not making better games: after four months since my first Street Pool's upload to Google Play had been done, I decided experimentally to change my category from Arcade to Sports. After 2 days I'd been ranked for the first time ever (top500 in category) in 10 countries. Of course I've never been ranked so high in such countries like USA, UK, Japan or Korea in Google Play store but in Amazon (yes oh my gosh I did it!): Top200 in the USA, Top220 in the UK now and Samsung App Store:UK and USA TOP 90 now; all results in the same category Sports Free. So feel free to experiment with description, game categories in Google Play faster than me, don't wait so long And last but not least: how did rankings affect on my monetization from games? It looked like significant improvements for the first three months since my 'eureka'. Now it's has been collapsed. Maybe it's only post 'santa' effect (who knows) BUT I've been no longer ranked in Google Play since February 2013 in any country, in any category... So I assume that ranking is really important for monetization in Google Play.
  ps. Run Checkers is now in Top220 in the Amazon USA in the category Board Free and I've just started in this week my third game...

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