Apple adds keywords to App Store additions

I logged in the other day to change a typo and noticed I had to enter some keywords to properly save. I hit the (?) link for help but it was broken. I went ahead and typed a few keywords in, thinking I could change them later.

Now sales are down 75% and I can't log in to change my keywords. The limit has also been updated to 255 chars but I'm still operating off 100 chars.

Looks like I'll have to submit a new binary and wait a couple weeks.

The keywords have been very helpful.

They did this for the launch of our new Weekly World News App. Quite funny :)

http://www.weeklyworldnewsapp.com/main.html

I'd love to be excited about it but there are so many things they SHOULD do in addition that I can only be a little less annoyed at them. The number huge of missing categories/sub-categories has been obvious since at least last December.

Be very careful about what keywords you put in. Once you submit them you can only change the keywords when you upload a new binary.

They really need to add subcategory trees. Take books. Did you want a book lookup app? A book reader app like Kindle or Stanza? Or an actual book? Fiction or non-fiction? SciFi or mystery?

And you need YouTube-style sorting: Most recent, most popular today, this week, overall.

The App Store has a lot of apps, and it needs a lot of ways to find them and browse through them.

MobileMe iDisk app is out!!!

Yup, only 100 characters for us too.

Hopefully with a 100 character limit, they'll stick to pertinent keywords. I've noticed that if you keyword search the dB, you often get results that aren't related, but they have a reference somewhere within their app description. This means that they often litter the bottom of their app description with the names of their competitors or other apps they want their app to list with when we do searches. It's very frustrating.

100 character max, not 255

My only issue with keywords is that it's very easy to build up a huge list of keywords, if you don't label everything properly you miss out a lot of stuff and the quality of searches then decreases. It's just like having categories, once you exceed a certain number of apps you start needing more categories, but once you start adding categories it becomes confusing as to what category you should look in. I just hope that there is some monitoring as to what keywords developers are using so they don't use inappropriate stuff or popular but unrelated ones.