1. Improving your Apps in
App Store

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3. Introductory Notes
• What is ASO?
• App Store Ranking Factors
• Components of ASO
• Screenshots
• Ratings and Reviews
• Ask a simple question!
• Measuring Success
• Tools And Resources
• Have questions?

4. 63 % of Android and iOS users have found
apps by “organic search” within the app
store.
What is ASO?
APP STORE Optimization means that the
search engine specific rules.
The higher your app ranks in an app store’s
search results, the more visible it is to
potential customers.

5. Why ASO?
An optimized app means more downloads, which
ultimately lead to more subscriptions, purchases,
shares, customer engagements, and whichever other
KPI’s equate success for your business.
ASO requires many of the same factors that go into
great SEO tactics. Like metadata, keywords, head
titles, description, & geography play a role in app store
listings, so leveraging the right tool to understand
these variables for your specific app can mean the
difference between a top-tier ranking & an also-ran
position.

6. • There are currently 750,000 apps in the
App Store alone.
• These apps have over 40 billion
downloads.
• There are one billion smartphones existing
in the world, and that number is growing.

7. App Store Ranking
Factors
The aspects that determine your ranking
in an app search engine can be divided
in textual aspects, popularity, and rating.
While all platforms have their own
ranking factor weights and algorithm
particularities, the ideal situation of these
factors is quite similar.

8. • App Name
• App Publisher
• Keywords and Description
• Installs so far
• Install Growth Spikes
• Current Installs, Uninstalls, Active Installs

11. Components of ASO

12. It’s easier to get games discovered on
Google Play

13. Screenshots

15. Keep an eye on the Top

16. Ratings and Reviews

17. Reviews

18. Ratings and Reviews

19. Ask a simple question!
Learn FAST

20. Focus On For Better App
Store Optimization

21. Measuring Success In
App Marketing
• Top Charts, especially Top Charts within a particular
category
• Just as ratings and reviews will help your ASO.
• Taking it one step further, correlating your search
rankings to downloads will allow you to understand
the effect your increased ASO is having on your
app performance.
• Keep an eye on the Top 50 Industry Wise
• we often see apps whose conversion rate soars with
an increase in ASO because the users are so much
more engaged with the app.

22. Tools And Resources
• Quickly talk about some tools and resources
to use to help your app marketing
o http://www.apptentive.com/
o http://www.apptamin.com/
o http://www.flurry.com/
o http://www.mobileapptracking.com/

23. FUTURE! Mobile App Growth
Continues to Explode

24. How Do Users Find
Apps?

25. Now It's Your Turn
Have questions,
Please light up the
comments

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