> > Yesterday I moved my app which was quite highly ranked from Paid to Free > app > > with in app billing. The app instantly dropped to literal obscurity the > > second I did it. It was almost as if my ranking value in the database > had > > been reset! > Well you are is now positioned against free apps so yes I would say it was 'reset' - that is all signals that are used to position app (eg. number of downloads, active installs and whatnot) were collected and position in free list was calculated (probably way lower that in used to have in paid list since paid vs free dynamics differs dramatically). tl;dr; My guess is that what you are seeing is you app current position in top free list and it will not change.
> No one here knows the details, but since free and paid apps seem to be > ranked > separately (Cf. 'Top paid' vs 'Top free'), your app is most likely being > treated as new free app. > I doubt that is categorized as 'new', in this video from IO2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Od2SuL2igA it's clearly stated that 'new' period (first 30 days when app is eglible for being placed in Top New charts) start when app is first published (it may be reseted when app is changed from paid to free but I think it unlikely). -- Bart -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
