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28 pointsgregaubs13 comments

Thanks for the tool! Makes me wonder how I can do better.

Maybe people in here can help me with this: I've entered the keywords for a little game I made. The name of the game is Lina (app store name: Lina - endless space snake).

My keywords are

    lina, line, action, fast, square, snake, star, space, runner, tron, retro, reflex, addictive, free

Out of those, only "lina" scores 4 and all the others are >50 - bad keyword. I realize that keywords like "addictive" and "free" are kind of useless, but I only put them there because I didn't have many keyword ideas...

Any ideas to what I could use to get better ranking?

Hi,

I'd recommend going more spesific with your keywords. And try to look for double keyword combinations you can rank high for. For example, even though you might rank low for both 'snake' and 'game', you will rank higher for 'snake game'. So remember to fill in any important double keyword combinations.

I've used this for an app I've build for fun (to check out Swift).

It ranks bad for both Yoga and Meditation, yet one can't use the app for anything else. I could, theoretically, remove these keywords, but what would I replace them with? I have no idea, and your tool doesn't help me.

I'd say it is more valuable to rank for a strongly-related keyword anywhere than to rank high for a weakly-related keyword. I.e. if my Yoga and Meditation app ranked #1 for Airplane, it would be completely useless :-)

Otherwise, I enjoyed using the tool. Nice flow through the process and good visualisations in the end.

Thanks for the feedback! It's very important to choose keywords that are strongly related to your app.

However, that a very difficult task to solve with an app, so were sticking to give you an overview over how they are performing. It's up to each user to jugde wether or no his/hers keywords are relevant for the app :)

Have you looked into the alchemy api?http://www.alchemyapi.com/

I haven't, but I surely will! Thanks for the tip.

Here is an article we wrote about the development by the way: https://medium.com/@gregaubs/a39477d2242a

Pretty cool tool all though it should be said that combinations of the keywords are important as well as the keywords alone.

I made a small script to allow searching in stores other than the us and in general for experimental purposes.

https://gist.github.com/k0nserv/adc136f35c696584c0aa

And nobody cares that they are giving their keywords to Keyword King? It's like the people using AppAnnie who don't realize they are giving away their revenue data for free so that AppAnnie can sell it to their competitors.

We have no interest in using the keywords to anything other than giving you an overview over how they are preforming. Plus, you can easily scrape this info from the iTunes Search API if you query it for all the words in the english alphabet, so its not worth much..

Nice, I sure will use this soon when I release my next app. It is a great idea!

Cool, will keep an eye on this when we release our app later this year.

Such a handy tool for app developers. Simple and easy to use.

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