has 4500 downloads. and is in the trending position in India.
It came into trending app on 19th of this month(june)
The app was launched on 5th (june).
Although it is at a very low position on trending ,but I think it is worth to talk about it on how it got there.
Now ,the only source of downloads for my app has been facebook groups.
I posted in a lot of groups and some of those posts got a lot of attention.
Some posts even getting 100+ likes and comments.
The retention rate has been more than 50%(although currently it doesn’t matter)
Now facebook banned me so I wont be able to test if posting more and getting attention causes any more change in the trending ranks .
But I think facebook might be the reason for trending and it can be easily decoded and repeated.
I think this might be the reason.
Link of the app being created at many places.
People installing my app from many places on facebook.(it can be easily tracked by google have u checked that when u click on a link in facebook,it is redirected first)
The posts containing the link of my app getting a lot of upvotes and comments.
These all factors might have kicked in for google’s algorithm to pick up my app and place it in the trending.
I don’t think the number of downloads has much to play here because if it was so,apps with big banners would have been able to easily achieve it and ultimately would have raised the barrier higher.
Trending lists consider the difference in downloads from the last 24 hrs in comparison to the previous 24 hrs. You appeared trending because of the spike on downloads you had with the facebook posts, not because of the posts are considered in the algorithm.
Apps with big banners normally don’t appear there because the were also showing the banner the day before, hence the difference in downloads is not large
They don’t need to appear on the trending list. They’re featured right there on the main page. They have twitter accounts with millions of followers and gigantic email list. Hell, I just got an email from King about AlphaBetty and I don’t remember signing up for their newsletter.
First of all congrats about your success and sorry about my english :P.
So how many groups did you manage to post your app before getting banned? You were banned from Facebook because of posting the same link in too many groups or because you were reported by users of any group? How many days were you banned? Did you tried to keep posting your app in groups after ban expired? How you think you can keep promoting your app in fb groups without falling into ban again? Maybe limiting number of groups you spam per day?
These are a lot of questions, please answer as much as you want. I agree facebook groups are a poweful way to promote for free but I don’t want to be banned from FB, I need my account in good standing. Thanks!
The amount of downloads they could get by being trending is too small for them to care about it. And the cost of fluctuating their budget would be way way higher.
From 0 to 500 downloads in a day and you are Top 1 trending in Finland
Well when my app was trending in top 20(music player not this one)
it was getting 30k downloads a day(from 12k to 30k difference of 18k) so i think it is worth it,even for them
Trending on the list is a matter of download momentum and happens mostly for new apps in Google Play that are not saturated yet; however, the story is different for big apps or games with large number of downloads. This is because their trend has already stabilized and downloads are mainly due to search.
A new app can be easily placed on the trending list by any incentive means such as buying downloads, ASO, etc, but the case is different for big names bcause they have already used these strategies long time before and are now stable in terms of downloads.
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