ASO Factors for Google Play and App Store

If you are looking for App store optimization tips, that probably means that you’ve successfully put your app in the App Store, Google Play, or both. If not, check this article and learn how to make it seamlessly, as there are a few tricky things about it. Anyway, to rank high in app stores, you’ll need to work on the app’s meta, graphic content, alter them, do a lot of A/B tests to find the best combination of the keywords used by your target audience. The hard part in ASO is to place all the desired and relevant keywords into the meta that have the restriction by the length. Finding this balance to achieve maximum conversions may become a challenging task.

It goes without saying that you’ll need to watch the competitors in your target category, country, check ranks and history, reviews, strategize keyword selection and try to extract the insights of what brought them the success. And work on the product itself - constantly improving it from the user’s point of view and here you can ask for help from a mobile apps development company.

So, to rank higher in the App Markets you should know the most important factors for each store. Let’s look at them closer.

Table of contents

App Store

All information about the app analytics you can find in App Store Connect.

Google Play

Title

It should include the most important keywords relevant to your app. The MAX length of your title is 50 symbols.

Short Description

It could include less important keywords and its MAX length is 80 symbols.

Description

Unlike the App Store in Google Play, the description takes part in the ranking of the application. Max length is 4,000 characters. The most important keywords are used at the beginning of the description and the less important are placed at the end of the description. Look for long-tail and mid-tail keywords and attach them to the description. Try to avoid the most common violations in metadata.

Graphic content (icon, screenshots, video preview)

All these elements can affect the conversion rate of your App and also can affect your rank. Use A/B tests to find the best variant of icon, screenshots, and video content. You can find requirements for graphic content here.

Reviews and Rating

Reviews are also indexed in Google Play and it affects your positions.

All information about the app analytics you can find in Google Play Console.

One of the most important factors in both marketplaces is the number of downloads by keyword. To find the best conversion rate by keywords it’s necessary to create A/B tests.

Conclusion

To make long story short I have prepared the table with the most important parameters that can affect the ranking in market places:

Parametrs

Google Play

App Store


Title

50 symbols

30 symbols


Sub-title

30 symbols


Keywords

100 symbols


Review and Rating

Indexing

30 symbols


Short Description

80 symbols

30 symbols


Description

4000 symbols

30 symbols


Graphic Content

Taking part in conversion rate

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