Ari Nahmani, CEO / Founder of Kahena Digital Marketing presenting at SMX Munich on ASO. The presentation covers metrics & KPIs, Organic discovery, and predictions for the future including app indexing, paid search and keyword data in the app stores, and better data.
18. Rankings: Tracking in the App Stores
• Results in web
interface. Scraped
results.
• Similar to how SEO
SERPs are measured.
• Very accurate and
consistent.
• No web-based
search results
• Unique method of
spoofing iTunes store
to scrape results.
• Less accurate and
inconsistent.
19. Rankings: Tracking in Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=keyword%20here
20. Rankings: Tracking in Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=keyword%20here
Scrape
results in
sequential
order
26. Rankings: PRO TIPs for keyword monitoring
• Focus on variety of
keywords.
• No need for slight
variations – very
similar rankings.
• Explicitly track plurals,
conjugations, & other
semantic variations if
you want to know
exact rank (apple’s
poor search /
semantic algorithm).
29. Downloads: Reported by Google & Apple
• Both stores report on ‘total’
downloads
• One of the most accurate KPIs
• The availability of truly accurate data
stops at the total downloads metric.
45. Downloads: Understanding Attribution
“We track the rankings for over a million search terms,
and likewise have search volume estimations for each of
them, so we know everywhere your app ranks and how
frequently users search for that term. We also have deep
knowledge (from studies, research, and data) about
consumer behavior in the app stores. Taken together, we
use all of these data sets to estimate the amount of
installs your app receives from any search term or
keyword, Top Chart, or featured list.” - MDHQ
53. Downloads: Understanding Attribution
…. To make matters more complicated:
• Google/Apple’s total download count differs
from your mobile analytics package
(download vs first open).
• Each platform has its own proprietary
calculations for ‘organic’, and further
granular breakdown
54. Downloads: Understanding Attribution
How to cope….
• Must track the organic methodologies separately:
(2 data sets each for iTunes and GP)
– 1) True Total – Tracked Campaign Total = “Organic”
– 2) App Analytics Platform Total (Tracked + “Organic”)
• Keep excellent records of top charts and
features to correlate.
• Track and collate daily if possible! Stacked
charts help.
97. The Future of ASO: Summary
• Official accurate data from Google & Apple
• Better GA integration – especially for GP.
• Better algorithmic signals for search results
(maturity of search algorithm like SEO history)
• Paid search in app store keyword data
• Indexed app content + APIs + markup =
seamless experience in web search, mobile,
apps.
110. Thanks!
Questions?
ASO hangout w/ @iseff on
March 24th, 4pm.
Ari Nahmani
CEO / Founder
Kahena Digital Marketing
ari@kahenadigital.com
Hinweis der Redaktion
Raise of hands – how many of you, your companies, or clients have a mobile app in one of the app stores?
Kahena is an inbound marketing agency based in Israel. Offices in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. We’ve got a great team and some really wonderful clients.
As you just heard from Emily, app store search algorithms can sort of feel like the old days. Its probably why I enjoy it so much – nostalgia! Image: http://www.axandra.com/images/old-school-seo.gif
When making recommendations to clients, it sometimes feel like we’re doing a bit of this – mention this keyword in the title once, and its plural in the description a few times, and let’s spam out the keywords field for good measure. Image: https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/p/5/005/06c/23e/227106d.jpg
And just like the old days of SEO, spammers are still succeeding to send signals that might not be authentic Image: reddit
App store search is an incredible opportunity. 64% of respondents to this survey downloaded their last app this week.
Close to half of iphone app discovery happens via search.
And more than half with google play. This is obviously a huge opportunity to get in front of more audiences, increase market share, and engage with potential/existing customers.
Today I’m going to speak about a few areas of ASO. The first of which is that after optimizing your apps, it’s extremely difficult to measure the lift accurately. Deep dive into metrics available and how they’re calculated. Image: http://medcitynews.com/wp-content/uploads/Black-Box-Art.png
I’m also going to speak about how ASO and SEO overlap – now and in the future. There’s a natural fit for SEO experts to start consulting on ASO. Googlebot image: http://www.abondance.com/actualites/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/googlebot2.jpg android: https://thelinuxcauldron.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/3d-android-icon.jpg
Lastly I’m going to speak about the future of ASO – lots going on in the weeks and months to come. Image: http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2063195!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/future2n-2-web.jpg
Leading indicators differ in that we need to speculate that one cause led to an effect – an example would be ranking lifts of high volume that are leading indicators for increased search traffic. Image: http://hni.com/Portals/38664/images/leading%20indicator1-resized-600.png
Rankings of keywords we deem to have important relevancy and volume. Installs as a result of increased app store search presence. And conversions within the app from those new users - their lifetime value and retention.
Desktop version
Can’t scrape these as they use AJAX, etc.
Just like SEO campaigns – add keywords before your changes go live in the app store if you’ve optimized for them. Group them by keyword vertical into buckets, etc.
Track keywords in buckets based on single word or strings of characters (mess=messaging/messenger) inclusion. You’ll get much better insight as to what worked in your title, description, keyword fields, etc.