SEO For Mobile Apps
With over 2.5+ million mobile apps in the major app stores, getting your app discovered is one of the biggest issues facing mobile app publishers today. If you’re in the mobile app space, it’s important to understand the various methods for marketing your app. We’d like to share with you one very important technique that continues to be overlooked by most – App Store Optimization (or ASO for short).
ASO is the process of optimizing mobile apps to rank higher in an app store’s search results. The higher your app ranks in an app store’s search results, the more visible it is to potential customers. That increased visibility tends to translate into more traffic to your app’s page in the app store.
The goal of ASO is to drive more traffic to your app’s page in the app store, so searchers can take a specific action: actually downloading your app.
Also, the ASO process requires a deep understanding of your target customer base, including the keywords your potential customers are using to find apps similar to yours. When you learn more about which keywords are being used, you will have a better understanding of the language of your potential customers – a crucial piece of any marketing plan – and you can hone in on your keyword choices.
According to Forrester, 63% of apps are discovered through app store searches. This makes search, in the app store, the most used method for discovering and downloading new apps. At a Google I/O developer conference, Google’s Director of Engineering at the time – Ankit Jain reported that “For the average app, search actually makes up the vast majority of installs”.
Simply put, this means that:
- If you’re not using ASO to increase your app’s search ranking, you’re missing out on the largest discovery channel available to your app.
- With hundreds of thousands of apps in each app store vying to rank above one another, the amazing reality is that the majority of publishers are not investing in app store optimization. So ASO is your secret weapon.
To reap the rewards of ASO, you need to invest time and effort. If you do, you’ll have a consistent channel driving traffic to your app. Being found is one of the most difficult challenges for mobile apps, but the team at Pure SEO has expertise in this area and can help you out.
