How to Get More High Ratings for Your Apps?

Monetizing, Advertising & Marketing Promote Your Android App
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With millions of apps in app stores, the app developers have faced a huge challenge to improve their apps. Only their apps get more visible and famous among the average people, they could get more installs and revenue. As well as the app reviews, app ratings also plays an essential part to boost app ranking. However, getting customer ratings is hard, and getting high(4/5 stars) app ratings is of course even harder. Therefore, this article will focus on why and how to get high app ratings for your apps.

Why should we get high app ratings?
Just like the reviews, app ratings also have a great effect on your app downloads. You need an average rating of 4-stars or above, or else only less than 50% users are willing to download your app. According a survey shows that 62% of top 100 free iphone apps have a 4 star ratings or better, and 92% of top 100 free iphnoe apps have a 3 star ratings or better. This shows that it is necessary for you to get app ratings during the process of app promotion.

what should you do for getting app ratings?

Insure the quality of your app
Most apps that have more 4/5 ratings must have high quality, because the ratings and the quality of your app is complement each other. Ensure each new user would notice the value of your app in the first impression, which can guide them remain your app in their mobile phone and give a high ratings of your app.

Ask the ratings at the perfect time
By watching at the behavior of users, you can analyze the interests of most users. It is more likely to get high ratings when they have a pleasure experience or finish a level. Controlling the right time to ask users to leave feedback is an useful method to avoid the situation that users feel annoy and impatient. Indeed, the times of reminder also be controlled in one time, which is be proved by many experiences in app stores.

Create a flowchart of asking ratings
This method means that you have to design a flowchart to users, which can give a choice to users so that they can leave their feedback voluntarily. The users can control the initiative so that they are more likely to leave their high ratings of your app.

Buy app ratings from a reliable company
There are most app developers would like to buy app ratings for the limited time and effort. If you have enough budget, you could buy app ratings from a reliable paid-ratings company to help you, which can provide more professional services to help you get a higher rank in app stores and increase the quality of your app.

Conclusion
High app ratings could guide users who have interests in your app to install your app, You should realized the importance of ratings as well as other features of your app, combining the useful methods and tactics to get more app downloads and improve your app value.

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To answer your question, we need to first know how Google Play Store ranking is decided. Google has, indeed, adopted a very sophisticated system in determining the ranking of an App for a keyword. The criteria taken into account are listed as follows:

(1) Number of Installs

(2) Retention Rate (how many days an App stays installed on a device on average?)

(3) Rating (out of 5.0) and number of ratings and reviews).

(4) Number of backlinks to your App’s Google Play page.

The most important criterion is (1), it weights about 60-70% in determining ranking, therefore, your main task is to get as many installs as possible in a short period of time. Nonetheless, criterion (2)’s importance has been raised since Google adjusted its algorithm in March 2017.

The next question is, how to get installs? There are many ways:

(1) Improve your App’s quality. It could be done by making your game bug-free, hiring an expert artist to improve your game’s graphic quality, etc. (may App developer rely too much on their own artistic senses, the result of which is that the appearance of Apps developed are not appealing to users on Google Play, resulting in loss of downloads) With good game quality, you get more positive reviews and ratings and players are more willing to download your App when they visit your App’s page.

(2) Cost-per-install campaigns. You can purchase a large amount of installs to boost your App’s ranking on Google Play. It is actually essential as there is no better ways to acquire visibility to your App (if you choose to spend tens of thousands of dollars on billboard, TV or newspaper adverts, you easily cost USD 10 or even USD 20 per install).

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As a personal experiment, I had spent $100 on Keyapp and obtained around 625 installs for my own game, split into 10 days. As you can see, after my campaign started, my game’s keyword ranking raised from around 35 to 17–18 at the end of campaign, and kept at a similar level even after the end of my campaign.

My organic install per day from USA grew from around 300 per day to 500 per day at the end of campaign.

(3) App Store Optimization. There are several aspects of ASO:

Good looking icon: Make your icon vivid colored (avoid dark blue, dark green or brown) and simple. Avoid jamming too many objects into the icon (imagine users view it with a small 4 inch mobile phone).

Good screenshots: Try to present the best aspects of your game in the first two screenshots, as according to a study by Storemaven, 60% of users only view the first two screenshots before they decide on downloading the game. Again, like icon, please try to make your screenshots (i.e. games) of fresh, vivid and lively colors (take Clash of Clans, Candy Crush and Crossy Road as your guidance), avoid dark green or brown as the theme color of your game (a common mistake of indie developers). Also, you may consider making an intro video for your App/game, according to Storemaven, it could increase conversion by 23% - not trivial is it?

Good description: in a nutshell, it means with good keywords included NATURALLY. Good keywords can be found on Sensor Tower - Mobile App Store Marketing Intelligence. In this site, you may search for keywords that have low competition and high traffic volume. However, please try to make keywords incorporated naturally, or else smart users will feel that your App is a spam and feel inhibited to download your game. Avoid mentioning other famous games or Apps as it is against Google policy.

It is also advised that you localize your game’s name and description into different languages - even if you don’t have a translator, Google Translate can help you, having localized keyboards can, according to a study, bring 30% more users to your App, so it is surely worth the effort (I guess localizing Apps will take less than 3% of your resources!).

A good practice of ASO is A/B testing, in other words, after your game’s download is stabilized with version A of screenshots/description/ icon, you may try to change one or more of the screenshots, description or icon into version B. You can then monitor the performance of your game for one week, if this change leads to an increase in performance, you can keep new icon, screenshots or description; if it leads to drop in download, you shall revert back to your old version A. You can experiment with versions C, D, E and so on until you find the best combination.

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To get Top you should pay attention to these complex factors:

  1. Numbers of downloads;
  2. Dynamics of downloads and deletions;
  3. Reviews and ratings from users;
    4.The frequency and regularity of the application;
  4. Number of references to the application on other resources: articles, news, reviews, etc .;
  5. Geographical position.

That list can be easily to realize and get Top Charts of Store. All you need to create powerful PR campaign and find proven provider of incent traffic in order to boost your App in Store.
All details can be described in PM -don’t hesitate to ask me any additional questions.

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Before buying 5-stars app ratings you should make good app store optimization first to make user more loyal to your app. Just pay attention to few things:

  1. don’t over use keywords in the app name
  2. make good description for each screenshot
  3. Test your icon & logo
  4. make short video demo of your app

Services like ASOdesk and Splitmetrics can be very useful for this goals.