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App Store Search to Soon Use Keywords
Posted on July 29th, 2009 CommentsIf you log in to iTunes Connect, you’ll be presented with the following message:
Keywords must now be entered for your applications on iTunes Connect. Customers will be able to search the App Store by your designated keywords. You must separate your keywords by commas when entering them on the application information page and are limited to 255 characters
This refreshing news. Too bad it was rushed out.
First, the limit is actually 100 characters. You’ll discover this if you enter more than that limit and save. Unfortunately, the second problem is that while there is an error message informing you of the real limit, the keywords field is now disabled and you can’t edit it. You have to cancel out of the page and come back.
Beyond the obvious bugs, a character counter would be nice. And as Marco points out, some guidelines about how the keywords will be used would help. Stemming? Phrases? Simple misspellings?
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