No sales for 5 days and now i'm listed in US Whats Hot for Strategy

tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
edited November -1 in Miscellaneous
I'm starting to think all of iTunes listing are crap. How can I get listed in Whats Hot when my app has not had a sale in 5 day? Makes no freaking Sense. I mean my US stroe ranking is even gone below 1000 Do they just randomly throw apps into those sub categories or what?
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  • THRSTNTHRSTN Member Posts: 178
    im in the same boat dude, my game sideways pinball is listed in whats hot for Arcade and Adventure but i haven't had a sale in 3 days whereas my Lite Free version is doin great (thank God i have iAds) so while im glad and excited im listed there i would like to know whats the criterias they go by for listing is?
  • expired_012expired_012 Member Posts: 1,802
    Being featured in a sub category is almost close to nothing. How in the world will people see the feature? Its only shown on iTunes, and most people buy apps mainly on their iPhones or iPod touches. So only the main features of n&n and what's hot that shows up on devices will have a real affect on sales
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    artonskyblue said:
    Being featured in a sub category is almost close to nothing. How in the world will people see the feature? Its only shown on iTunes, and most people buy apps mainly on their iPhones or iPod touches. So only the main features of n&n and what's hot that shows up on devices will have a real affect on sales

    Yes Debbie Downer I realize that. My question was, WTF? it makes no sense. The sub category features should still be based on some sort of ranking so how is this possible?
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  • THRSTNTHRSTN Member Posts: 178
    artonskyblue said:
    Being featured in a sub category is almost close to nothing.

    thanks for the pep talk there art i still feel good about it being up there as opposed to not being there Sheesh.
  • expired_012expired_012 Member Posts: 1,802
    Don't get me wrong here guys, being featured in a sub category is still a good thing. At least your app is getting some sort of recognition from apple while many other apps are not. When I said it meant close to nothing I meant it doesn't affect sales too much, which seems to be the truth from my experience at least.
  • azavegaazavega Member Posts: 362
    Well i can tell form my experience that it didnt increased sales that much my two game were there and they sale more i guess cause the price change from 1.99 to 0.99 that from been in the What's Hot section...
  • HunnenkoenigHunnenkoenig Member Posts: 1,173
    It's probably based on avarage download, not on single day download.
    There are probably other automated scripts also involved. I wouldn't think much about it.

    Assault Commando is always featured somewhere even with 10-20 downloads a day.
  • VoidedSkyVoidedSky Member Posts: 1,095
    @tenrdrmer
    Is it your Galactic Towers game?
    You'll have to keep us updated on the sales increase!
    ~CTM
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  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    CowTechMan said:
    @tenrdrmer
    Is it your Galactic Towers game?
    You'll have to keep us updated on the sales increase!
    ~CTM

    This is Galactic.Towers But I don't expect any increase I was New&Noteworthy for strategy games in UK over Holiday shut down and not a single sale from that. ArtonSkyblue is right that it doesn't usually help sales, It seemed pointless to give that response when that had nothing to do with my question.

    @ArtonSkyblue - Sorry, It was prob a little rude to call you Debbie Downer.
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