Yo! what up?! This is a Daily Overpass. My name is Eric and I make apps.
Now today, I want to give you an update on how changing my app name, affected the keyword rankings.
Okay, last week I was freaking out about the new google play
developer policies. Especially towards my big app called "Ear Spy", or atleast it
was called Ear Spy last week, right? So, it was, I think it was Monday where I was, I
was talking about the fact that you know, they were you know, they were gonna start
penalizing people use spy, or surveillance, or stuff in their app. And,
of course my biggest app is called Ear Spy, so.. you know, and I rank really well
for it. I was ranking like if you type in spy in, like a lot of countries, I was
coming up top right in it. It wasn't just that that because I think that
contribute a lot to downloads but I mean I mean I've never told you guys this but
I went to go to see like a major movie studio in London because I told them I
had the top spy app and I didn't think anybody would really do anything about
it but they actually did invite me and I had this big meeting with them about
them sponsoring sponsoring the app for one of their app so we did like a big
mock-up and everything but never nothing ever returned from it so but it was kind
of this thing that I spelled it felt like I have this special thing like it's
my special thing at the top spy app right and then of course you know it's
not really a good thing because every time Android is mentioned in the news is
always about all the spies and you know the you know it's stealing all your data
and everything but you know still fun so so last week on Tuesday I can you know
change the name everywhere we change it change it in the app I change it on the
app descriptions changing the title change it you know everywhere the only
place I didn't change it is on the screenshots but I got rid of all the
screenshots that said spy or surveillance and everything he just said
super-hearing so what I thought I would do today is is talk about the effects
that that's had cuz like last week I was kind of I was you know I actually
thought towards the end of you know towards the end of last week I might be
broke like my whole AdMob revenue would dry up you know it purchases would dry
up I would just become you know it was just everything we just
but that hasn't happened so let me take a look at my screen I'll show you I'll
show you what's happened so far and why I think it's working that way okay so
here you see on my screen you see the Google Play screen and if I go in here
and type spy em it still comes up top right if I take if I show you this it's
I don't have spy in the title I don't have it in any of the I just have it
here on the screenshot but not you know not anywhere else in the description I
have it only one place which is this is not us you know this is me the app was
previously named ear spy it's a typo already typo so I've only had the word
spy once in the description so and it still comes up first right so the reason
I think that is is because the word spy is used like I have like years of
reviews and you know if I show you how many reviews I have here on this app of
how many apps you know it's thirty-eight thousand seven hundred reviews right so
it's it's that's still working in my favor if I show you if I go into my
dashboard you can see here this is like the past week you know up until last
week it was having about 4,000 downloads a day right and then this is where I
changed it and then this is where right over here is where I was really freaking
out thinking okay it's all on a downward slide but then it starts to come up a
little bit and it seems like it's starting to recover a little bit in
terms of that now if I go into if I show you here in in the ASO tool on a penny a
penny my favorite tool ever right the free version you get you can take your
sensor towers you could take your mobile action just give me a penny and yeah and
I'm good right so um but if I go in here and show you the the keywords here so
again spy this is the UK market let me show you US market because um because
that's really what we're into so you know we're still on the top of the on
the US market over here you top for eavesdrop spy here hearing yo rut word
top keyword for a lot of words that's driven mostly by the amount of
downloads and the reviews so if we talk about this the rich get richer and all
this kind of stuff it's really difficult to break into that but once you can you
start amassing those reviews I mean it does cushion a lot of these things right
so if I so we're doing really well and I even put in here um I put agent in just
to see you know adding this you know because I have a lot of reviews already
have a lot of traffic coming through if I introducing this new word in let me
just see here I've been agent there we go so you can see it it's actually okay
here we go so for some reason I was ranking for
agent like 173 m s not really ranking is it's just sort of you know whatever and
then now we're coming in since I changed the name a few days ago we're coming in
at thirty seven fifty whatever so it's Kali because we introduced a new name
into the title right so I found that really strange and surprising and
relieving right I'm just I'm a bit relieved because even those other
copycats that use you have that call themselves ear spy have not caught up
yet now I don't know if that's going to change it's only been a week right so
but yeah what I wanted I just wanted to keep you guys just let you know last
week I was kind of freaking out about it I'm still kind of freaking out about it
but calm now a little bit right in fact over the last week we've taken a lot
more client workers I thought man you know all the app the app revenue could
dry out right so so I'm pretty pleased about that and i'ma show you the reviews
over here um you know if I type it type in the word spy I mean we still have the
word spy using a lot of reviews and I I'm starting to think that the guy I
showed you this a few a few months ago how I was ranking for keywords and
phrases that weren't even in the app description or the title but people were
saying them a lot in the in the reviews like you know like cheating cheating
wife cheating girlfriend all that so I was ready for that kind of stuff and
that's not what this you know that was not what this happens about but that's
when people think the app is about so they were reviewing and all this stuff
so anyway not to show off but you know I just want to show you guys
you know how that works and I think you know getting reviews is one of the most
important things you can do because you in fact if you could get people to leave
reviews with keywords in the reviews I mean that seems to help a lot I don't
know if it weighs them more than it does for the title but you know you see I
don't even have the word of my title and we're still ranking on the top for it
even after doing those changes and it might catch up with me on y'all I'll let
you guys know in like a month or something like that hey what hey I
apologize we're not doing a video yesterday I kept meaning to do that and
it was just one of those days where it got away from me
but this is number 99 tomorrow was a hundred I hope you guys aren't getting
sick of me yet that's it for today I'm going to talk to you guys tomorrow