Play Store developers can now add keywords to their apps for greater discovery
Google is now allowing app developers on its Play Store to tag applications with keywords and phrases for easy discovery. As reported by Android Police , the ability to add tags debuted on the Play Console just around a week ago. The ability to tag applications will greatly help the Play Store determine where to place the app and how to compare other apps to it, says Google. In order to apply tags, the users can pick up to five tags out of a predetermined list of 150. Tags will be changed by the developers, ‘only’ when there is a need for a ‘significant change to the content or functionality’ of their app. Moreover, Google requires app developers to be more ‘precise’ while tagging the apps, in the company’s words. For instance, a multiplayer racing game with vintage cars may have the tags ‘racing’ and ‘car race’, as these tags indicate the kind of games involved. Now, these games should not be tagged ‘stunt driving’ or relevant game categories that could attract simila...