[android-developers] Re: Almost nobody is rating my app.

Yea, unless your app does something completely out of the ordinary,
you will get very few ratings. The rating system is a little wonky,
where people have to go back to the market to rate it, and it's
probably that extra step that people don't want to bother with. The
best thing you can do is maybe put a link somewhere in your app to
rate your app and just hope for the best.

On Feb 9, 1:36 pm, John Coryat <cor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ratings are an odd thing on the Android market. My app has over 3,000,000
> downloads but only has about 20,000 ratings. That works out to 0.7% of
> users rate the app. I think this is pretty typical. Unless you have a
> really excellent or really terrible app, people won't rate it.
>
> For 650 downloads, I would expect four ratings. Two is a bit low but that
> could mean your app is neither compelling or awful. In a way, that's a
> compliment for a new app.
>
> The best way to increase the number of ratings is to improve the excitement
> generated by your app. My app is a weather radar app and during the major
> storms last year it received hundreds of ratings in a week. This was
> because it was actually saving people from getting wet, getting clobbered
> by hail and even their lives in a couple of cases. That's excitement.
>
> -John Coryat
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