Rankings Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple warns of crackdown on App Store rankings manipulation

by Chris Rawson (Feb 6th, 2012)

Apple has issued a reminder to developers that it will not tolerate use of third party services to manipulate app rankings in the App Store. "When you promote your app, you should avoid using services that advertise or guarantee top placement in App Store charts," the reminder states. "Even if you ...

App Store algorithms down and back up, probably tweaked

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd, 2010)

Regular users may not have noticed this, but I'm sure developers have -- the App Store's charts have been in a freeze for the past few days, leaving apps in exactly the same positions as they were last Thursday. That might not seem like too big a deal, but for many developers, the App Store charts ...

Developers report a moment of upside-down app rankings, now returning to normal

by Michael Rose (Nov 4th, 2009)

It seems to be back to status quo ante now, and we're not sure exactly what was going on, but something apparently slipped off the crazy shelf and whacked the App Store firmly in the noggin. Multiple users and developers emailed to let us know that the Top Paid rankings in the store were completely ...