ankit662003:
Okay guys,so my new app which is a calculator app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=calc.calculator.scientific.scientific_calculator
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.
If you have questions contact me on twitter: twitter.com/AnkitS93
It’s possible that Facebook flagged you as a spammer. That can happen sometimes, especially to new accounts that don’t have a lot of history. A lot of these big online businesses are starting to operate this way. It sucks, but that’s the way it is.
It was trending in many countries i guess,not sure
but it was definitely trending in USA ,Japan and India
What are you talking about ?
mentat47:
It’s possible that Facebook flagged you as a spammer. That can happen sometimes, especially to new accounts that don’t have a lot of history. A lot of these big online businesses are starting to operate this way. It sucks, but that’s the way it is.
I know fb flagged me as a spammer but I opened this discussion to try to understand on how my app got into trending list.
thank you for this insightful thread. helped me a lot