Category: Apple App Store SEO Ranking

The Information wrote a piece that says Apple is at least four years or more away from building its own search engine – Apple Search. We have been talking about Apple’s quiet efforts in building its own search engine for many years now and to see they …

Robert Scoble posted a bunch of items around what to expect from the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) that is happening Monday, June 6th. Robert said a bunch of things but specific to search he said “and a new search engine is coming too.”…

Apple seems to have relaunched what as known as Apple Maps Connect to Apple Places. Apple Maps Connect launched in 2014 but as of this past Friday, I am told, Apple rebranded it to Apple Places and Apple Business Register.

Google has published a document explaining what developers need to know about the upcoming App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy changes.The changes will require developers to ask for permission when they use certain information from other companies’ …

Since 2014 we have seen signs that Apple is testing the waters of building its own web crawler and search engine. Yes, this has been going on for more than six years. But now, Apple might be launching something in search, beyond Siri on iOS and Spotl…

In 2015, Apple first revealed information about AppleBot, its search engine crawler. Then a few months ago, Apple updated its information around web search to list its web ranking factors. Jon Henshaw last week published a very comprehensive blog pos…

Apple is bringing search ads to their App Store. Apple announced it last night saying, “starting this summer, you’ll be able to participate in the Search Ads beta and see the ads in action…

As you know, Apple confirmed the existence of AppleBot, their web crawler, last year. The main purpose of it is to help index content not just in apps but also the app content that references the web (like Google App Indexing but in the iOS world)…
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Most of you probably don’t remember or have heard of Direct Hit, it was a search engine from the 90s. It ranked web sites based off of user metrics…

As I reported on Search Engine Land via TechCrunch, Apple has made some updates to their App Store search engine recently.

The most noticeable update is that the App Store will now return search results that have misspellings, typos…

Did you hear the news that AppGratis was pulled from the Apple App Store? AppGratis defines itself as a company that “offers the opportunity to reach new exciting audiences in more than 30+ countries. Every year we deliver more than 100,000,000 non-inc…