I was writing an article on App Store SEO and decided to mine the App Store search suggest to see if it could tell me anything about how users navigated the app store through search. The results are below. To discover this list I put the letters of the alphabet into the search engine to find popular queries around that letter. The result was a list of 260 keywords, 228 of which were unique.
A few observations:
- The list is made up mostly of popular apps and developers of the apps, most of which are listed according to the application name or developer name, and not according to the query used to find them.
- Seems to be fresh content, as some of the apps are brand new
- Free is the most frequently used keyword, followed by lite
- In some cases (e.g. bible, drinking games (free), sudoku (free), dog whistler) no specific app is mentioned.
This list will likely change as the most popular app list changes, but marketers looking to understand what users are looking for in the App Store can use search suggest to help them get there.
App Store Search Suggest Keywords for Friday April 24, 2009
aim (free edition)
archers: bowman’s battle free
awesome ball
amazing x-ray fx^2 lite
aol
action bowling free
aroundme
arcade bowling™ lite
atomic fart free (funny, prank, joke, game and much more!)
aol radio
bubblewrap
backgrounds
babelgum
blackjack free
3d brick breaker revolution free
beer pong challenge
batter up baseball™ lite
bible
catcha mouse
crazy penguin catapult free
compass free
cube runner
the weather channel®
digital chocolate, inc.
the game creators
chillingo ltd
codify ab
cbs sports mobile
dictionary.com – dictionary & thesaurus
draughts free
dog whistler
dictionary.com
dots free
directv
drinking games free
deal or no deal: million dollar mission lite
dow jones & company, inc.
enormego
google earth
ebay mobile
epicforce
eyetricks
electronic arts
exploding spec
espn cameraman
epocrates
ebay inc.
f-mylife
sudoku (free)
flood-it!
flashlight
ferrari gt evolution: lite version
flipside5, inc.
free translator
finger sprint free
fuzz friend
galaga remix lite
google mobile app
the godfather
gameloft
mini golf 99 holes theme park free
girl wars (girls only!)
gunapp
heat pad – relaxing heat sensitive surface
touch hockey: fs5 (free)
hangman.
free hangman
john haney software
how to videos from howcast.com
huffingtonpost.com
high gloss
haunted
have2eat
idare
ihandy level free
ifighter lite
iguerilla lite
imob 15 respect points
ibowl
imob 40 respect points
I sniper lite
ihandysoft inc.
iheart radio
jonathan johnson and brian pratt
jellycar
jirbo, inc.
john e. hartzog
junpei wada
joost
john moffett
jared judd
kingdoms live – free for limited time
kindle for iphone
kanondrum
kazuho okui
kronos games
koi pond
knots
kevin calderone
keyvisuals
konami digital entertainment
labyrinth lite edition
lightsaber unleashed
lose it!
labpixies
racing live – free for limited time
lie detector advanced (free)
live poker by zynga
movies
myspace mobile
mobilityware
mood sense lite
mafia wars by zynga
mazefinger
yahoo! messenger
namco networks america inc.
ninjas
nba game time
ngmoco, inc.
nytimes
nba digital
night stand
nine inch nails
newton’s cradle classic
next mobile web
odasoft
optime software
orsome
ocarina
tap of war free
opentable
bank of america – mobile banking
bounce on lite
the oregon trail
pandora radio
pac-man lite
padadaz
playmesh
pandora media, inc.
pocket god
papijump
paper football by jirbo
public radio tuner
quickvoice recorder w/free voicemail
quetouch.com
andy qua
quicktip
q continuum
quick tap reflex -free
quip
quick graph
pop quiz!
remote
removem (free)
ringtone recorder free ringtones
race wars san francisco
race wars
rbz apps
skype
shazam
sol free solitaire
shotgun free
storm8
skyworks
stickwars
sgn
stylem media
tap tap revenge 2
tap tap revenge
tapulous
tic-tac-touch: fs5 (free)
textfree lite
twitterfon
urbanspoon
wordsearch unlimited lite
usa today
units
undead live! Vampire werewolf overlord
uniwar
ustream viewing application
zombieville usa lite
virtual zippo® lighter
virtuesoft.com
vegas pool sharks lite
vampires live – free for limited time
vlingo – voice app
vault breaker full free
volkswagon polo challenge 3d
voicenotes
virtual villagers 2 lite
virtual villagers 2: the lost children
wsj – the wall street journal
word scramble by zynga
wings for cats
who wants to be a millionaire lite
whiteboard: collaborative drawing
webartisan
the weather channel interactive
webworks and applications
xcube lite
xbox achievement guide
xpressed
xtreme labs inc.
xcube labs
inside xbox 360
1337pwn xbox live friends application
amazing x-ray fx^2 pro
x-plane 9
yahoo!
yelp
yudo inc.
y! music
yellow pages
ypmobile
youniversal ideas
yo mama for a buck
yowza!!
zynga
the zumobi network
zombieville usa
zombie attack! Free
zintin
zentomino lite
zipcodes
zhdict
How quick do you think these have changed? is there any way to find the most commonly used keywords that are more up to date?
great guy
its kool ta have stufff like this ,but may be good tool should be created for apppstore ,android store ,ovi store altogether which uses good datamining technique.
Hi,
Check this: http://appkeywordtool.com
Thanks
Hello,
I am a seller in App Store and I want to ask if there is a way to figure out
how much popular a keywords or a phrase in Apple App Store search or in
iTunes?
similar to what is in Google Adwords but Google Adwords provide the
popularity of a keyword or a phrase in Google search engine.
Thank You,and I appreciate your assistance,
Saud
Great list of app keywords. Thank you for this useful list.
I think I should save this page for future reference. Anyway, do have any specific tools to scrape this results?