Market position rapidly decreased from one day to another

Hello,

My app was always on 4th position for a certain search term. Now it´s on position 35!!! I´ve just wondered, why nearly no one buys it anymore.

Between my app and position 1. are lots of crappy apps, which have nothing to do with the search term.

Have you ever experienced such behaviour?
What could be the cause??

the play store is country based. For which country do see fall in ranking? If it is non-english speaking country then have you translated your app for target country.
The title and description are most important followed by Uninstall rate.
Read my blog post:
How does Google play store ranking work | Java Experience

The falling was in Germany, but I think it´s also in the american store. The app has been translated one week ago. Uninstall rate is nearly zero, can´t imagine when I´ve seen the last uninstall. The description and title haven´t been changed.

The free version of my app is still on #1 with the same search terms

oh! the paid apps usually get low rankings because of poor install rate. May be other members can help you out. I am free app fan boy and your free app is already number one.

Yeah, but I didn´t expect my app to fall down by 31 places within a short period of time. Being a paid app can´t be the reason and because it´s a complete standalone app with extended features, which aren´t even mentioned in the free appp and free app´s description, it´s very bad for me. The install rate is indeed not the best, I´m getting from 2-10 installs a day, but the pro version was first a donate version with even much less downloads, lets say 1-2 a month and the ranking was still much better, I think it was position 7

Edit: Just talked to another developer. He has exactly the same problem. Seems that Google changed something on their search engine

Sorry to jump into this thread, but if someone knows the answer then please help: how to check the rankings for Play Store in different countries? Is there a way to do it without linking your developer account?

Thank you :slight_smile:

appannie.com

yes I too use appannie. There you have option to choose country.

Thanks guys. Do I need to link my developer account with them in order to check the rankings? What if I have 2+ dev accounts and want to check rankings from all of them?

Thanks again :slight_smile:

you have to look up the apps individually and no you don’t need an account

Wow thank you, nice site.

But how do I have to understand the rank? Is it total of all apps? Almost impossible

the ranks are broken up into categories as well, play with it, good place to find out what’s hot in specific countries, i.e. India loves its porn

Well ,
Apparently Google did not get enough of us with the latest policy update so they decided to FU** us one more time
I am publishing a new app , usually this app would appear in the 3-4th position for a specific search term ,
Now it is not even showing in the results
and all the results is messed up , bringing the most downloads and ranking to top even it is not related to the search term

So we are facing another challenge now which is the App discoverability ,
This way new apps will never be noticed and will never make it to the top lists ,

So we are once again Fu**ed by the big man

Seems like it’s best not to release anything until it gets sorted out. Wait two weeks or sth.

This is the biggest shit I´ve ever seen. Users who are looking for a certain function my app provides are first getting wallpapers and themes until they get to my app, although some descriptions of others are only a few lines, containing the keyword only twice, while mine is a huge detailed description, containing the keyword much more often. I think, the only thing which seems to count now for ranking is the Google +1 Button. Thats the only thing which is in relation to the ranking when I compare these apps

Okay if I search for the direct app name, I find it now on position 44 instead of #1, Google really wants to fuck me up. I don´t have downloads anymore, they completly destroyed my business