# SEO: Help raise awareness of AntennaPod in Google Play Store
**URL:** https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636
**Category:** Project management
**Created:** [February 3, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636 "2021-02-03T16:58:30Z")
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/1 "2021-02-03T16:58:31Z")
Do we want to change the title or publisher name on Google Play, so AntennaPod can be found more easily? This thread is to continue the [discussion on GitHub](https://github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaPod/issues/3755). Make sure to read the thread there before posting here.
On Jan 2, I changed the title for German users from `AntennaPod` to `AntennaPod - Podcast-Manager`. You can find the number of acquired users in the image below. There is a general (slow) upwards trend but I do not think that the change makes a difference.
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2021, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/2 "2021-02-03T17:00:10Z")
> [@keunes](#):
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> I feel the lowest points in January are higher than the lowest points in December. Is it possible to get stats for a specific period, e.g. to compare actual numbers of Nov-Dec with Jan-Feb?
I think there is a general upwards trend, even before the change.
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### Author:  [@Matt\_Wilkie](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/Matt_Wilkie)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2021, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/3 "2021-02-08T07:28:03Z")
Definitely agree that ’ Podcast’ needs to be somewhere the search engine index looks. Whether that’s in the title or tag line or … (Shrug).
‘Ad-free’ is certainly what I use all the time when ranking unknown apps I wish to try. And then ‘open-source’, but I don’t try that as often because it just doesn’t seem to work as a keyword on the Play store.
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2021, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/4 "2021-07-17T08:06:55Z")
The new Google guidelines for app metadata do not permit putting features like “free” or “ad-free” into the title or developer name anymore:
> **[Updated guidance to improve your app quality and discovery on Google Play](https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/04/updated-guidance-to-improve-your-app.html)**
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> Posted by Bert de Weerd and Tingmui Li, Google Play When Google Play launched in 2008, it was easy for developers to get noticed with...
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### Author:  [@peakvalleytech](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/peakvalleytech)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/5 "2021-07-21T23:12:03Z")
I have a few apps on the playstore myself, so I have some first hand experience with ASO.
I would definitely reccomend adding a few keywords to the title. It defintely helps.
Suggestions:
AntennaPod - Podcast Player
(Simple, profressional)
AntennaPod - Ultimate Podcast Player
(a bit on the extreme, but catchy)
AntennaPod - Podcast for Users
(user centric, hints at open source origin)
AntennaPod - Podcast Player/Manager
(Keyword heavy)
AntennaPod - A Podcast App
(Keyword heavy)
My vote is for
AntennaPod - Podcast for Users
or
AntennaPod - Podcast Player/Manager
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/6 "2021-09-13T17:33:05Z")
The Google developer account was just transferred from the old maintainer. I renamed the developer name to “AntennaPod Open Source Team”.
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### Author:  [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/7 "2021-09-16T11:46:27Z")
> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> I think there is a general upwards trend, even before the change.
It seems the general upward trend was temporary of nature. There was a spike in March last year and around when 2.0 was released. Wondering where the March spike is from.
 
> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> I renamed the developer name to “AntennaPod Open Source Team”.
That’s a great change but I doubt it’ll have much impact on installs. On Google Play we must have it mainly from ‘regular’ users.
Can we update the name to `AntennaPod - Podcast Player`, let it be for a year, and compare pre- and post 365 day results?
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### Author:  [@peakvalleytech](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/peakvalleytech)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2021, 7:15am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/8 "2021-09-24T07:15:27Z")
+1 for @keunes suggestions for renaming. We should mention that it is open source in the description, not the developer name. That should be used for ASO as much as possible.
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### Author:  [@ueen](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ueen)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/9 "2021-10-25T10:46:02Z")
Here’s my search
**Considering total installs (AP is at 500k apxm), which are very important for ranking, I doubt we could do much better by renaming.**
I guess we would need more influencers or podcasts to mention AP if we truly wanted to gain popularity. I heard it mentioned before for example it’s recommended by Lage der Nation.
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/10 "2021-10-28T18:35:16Z")
I think AntennaPod is mainly popular in Germany. In other countries we do not have such a good ranking. Given that most other apps seem to add some features to their title, I think we could do it too. I would vote for “AntennaPod - Podcast Manager” or “AntennaPod - Podcast Player” for now. The title then has to be translated, so we have to add it to Transifex.
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### Author:  [@tonytamsf](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/tonytamsf)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/11 "2021-10-30T13:19:31Z")
> [@ByteHamster](#):
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> AntennaPod - Podcast Player
In the United States, the the word Player is more widely use
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### Author:  [@gomezz](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/gomezz)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2021, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/12 "2021-10-30T13:34:37Z")
My view is that we should go back to calling such apps Podcatchers.
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### Author:  [@ByteHamster](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/ByteHamster)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/13 "2021-10-30T17:28:01Z")
The problem with “podcatcher” is that it doesn’t contain the word “podcast” and is not known by many of the people who discovered podcasts only recently.
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### Author:  [@keunes](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/keunes)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/14 "2021-11-04T21:47:24Z")
I would also go for adding ‘Podcast Player’
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.antennapod.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2022, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.antennapod.org/t/seo-help-raise-awareness-of-antennapod-in-google-play-store/636/15 "2022-02-25T08:11:42Z")