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Add extra keywords in the Spanish (Mexico) listing to rank in the US
Works better than Arabic, Chinese or Vietnamese listings; no numbers
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What they did
Because the US App Store also indexes keywords from some localizations, host still fills the Spanish (Mexico) localization with extra keywords; other localizations (Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese) haven't worked as well.
What happened
Spanish (Mexico) outperforms other localizations for this.
- Stage
- growth
“I still use the Spanish, Mexico one. I haven't seen Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese do as well as Spanish, Mexico”
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