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Farm Town 2™: Hay StackFamily · Sergey Karakozov
The basics are there. The easy gains are still on the table.
Land the top 3 fixes below and this listing reaches 75/100 · 6,637 m (High Camp).
Every failing check as a sticky, ordered by how many points it adds. Start top left.
Conversion drops sharply below 4.5. Ask for a rating with SKStoreReviewController right after a success moment, never on launch.
3.54 average.
Apps that ship regularly get re-crawled and keep their ranking. Aim for an update every 4 to 6 weeks, even a small one.
Last update 4441 days ago.
Each localisation adds a new title, subtitle and 100-character keyword field. Even without translating the app, localise the listing for ES, DE, FR, PT-BR and JA.
1 language.
On iOS, only the title, subtitle and hidden keyword field count for search. The description does not. Words you only mention there are invisible.
The first three do most of the selling: they appear directly in search results. Read them as a stranger would, in two seconds.
1 · in search
2 · in search
3 · in search
4Apple returned fewer than five written reviews for this store. Try another country, or come back when more arrive.
Apps Apple shows next to this one, run through the same audit.
Metadata Studio checks character limits, wasted words and keyword coverage as you type.
Audit of the public listing as of today. The hidden 100-character keyword field cannot be read from outside App Store Connect, so it is not scored.
Rating volume feeds ranking and trust. Add an in-app prompt at a positive moment; most apps collect 1 to 3 percent of active users this way.
67 ratings.
24 characters unused. Fit one more keyword phrase in.
6/30 characters used.
Search results show three portrait screenshots but only one landscape. Lead with portrait unless the app is a landscape game.
First screenshot is landscape.
“Bug fixes and improvements” tells existing users nothing. Name what changed: it is free re-engagement copy shown in the Updates tab.
Generic notes: “New villas”
Add one line of proof near the top: user count, rating, a press quote or an Apple feature.
No user counts, press or awards mentioned.
Add 4 more. Each screenshot is a free ad panel: one benefit per panel, caption in large type.
4/10 iPhone screenshots.
The title is the heaviest ranking field. You have 7 characters unused: add your strongest keyword after the name, e.g. “Farm Town 2™:: <main keyword>”.
23/30 characters used.
Lead with one clear benefit sentence. It is the only part most visitors read.
First paragraph is 19 characters.
Break the wall of text into short sections with bullets. People skim listings on a phone.
0 bullet lines, 6 paragraph breaks.
Title, subtitle and keyword field built from real App Store searches, sized to Apple's limits.
The description keeps coming back to these, but the title and subtitle skip them. Check each one in Keyword Scout and move the winners into the keyword field.
Live position in Apple's search results. Checks are saved in this browser, so the next visit shows what moved.
Positions come from Apple's public search API and can differ by a few places from what a phone shows.
