Rankforge
// 01 RATINGS

Grow ratings and installs in the same campaign

Ratings are an add-on to App Store campaigns, priced per install. Every install in the campaign can carry one, so your score moves while the traffic arrives.

// 02 WHY IT MATTERS

The rating decides what your traffic is worth

You can win the position and still lose the install. People see the rating in the same glance as your name, and they compare it against whatever sits next to you.

Four out of five users check the app rating before downloading.

Nobody stops to think

People stop and compare

Example store pages, not clients.
// 03 WHEN YOU NEED IT

Three situations where the rating is the thing in the way

You are buying ads

Every network sends its traffic to the same store page, and the rating sits at the top of it. The share of those people who install decides what you actually paid per install, so a weak rating raises the price of traffic you are already running.

Organic ratings turned negative

A bad release collects one-star ratings in a few days, and the average keeps them long after the bug is fixed. New ratings are the only thing that moves it, because nothing removes the old ones.

The app has just launched

A new app has almost no ratings yet. We start carefully here: a small number of installs a day, each one carrying a rating, and the average builds from there.

// 04 HOW IT WORKS

Run rating adjustment campaigns with installs

// 05 PRICE

What a rating costs

A rating is an add-on to an install, so the campaign is priced in two parts: the install it rides on, and the add-on itself.

LIVEAPP STORE · LIVE INSTALL
€0.26per install

The live install the rating rides on. A person searches your keyword or opens your link, installs the app, and opens it.

RATING
+€0.04per install

Added to every install in the campaign. Left by the person who installed the app.

One price in every country.

// 06 RATING TRACKER

Watch the rating move and track it

Every app you add gets a rating history: the average by day, the ratings behind it split by star, and the same picture per country. Campaign or no campaign, it keeps running.

// 07 WHAT CLIENTS SAY

Real apps, real campaigns, real numbers

Start with one keyword of your own: no card, no minimum, and the position is yours to check in the store.

“performance picked up and the impact on our brand was positive”

3.0 → 4.2rating in 21 days

Financial app

We had users complaining about things outside our app, which hurt conversions. After starting with the service, performance picked up and the impact on our brand was positive.

Dave J

Conversion +27%, reported by the client

“our weekly installs had surged tenfold”

Top 1-10positions for more keywords, in one month

Health & Fitness app, Canada

We decided to give our app a boost in Canada because, despite our previous efforts in optimization, it was consistently ranked low for most keywords. The app now ranks in the top 1-10 for more keywords, and our visibility score (checked through Apptweak) also took a nice jump. Within just a month, we began to see tangible results – the app started attracting more installs, and by the end of the campaign, our weekly installs had surged tenfold.

Rene, Product Marketing Manager

Positions and visibility score checked by the client in Apptweak

“performance picked up and the impact on our brand was positive”

3.0 → 4.2rating in 21 days

Financial app

We had users complaining about things outside our app, which hurt conversions. After starting with the service, performance picked up and the impact on our brand was positive.

Dave J

Conversion +27%, reported by the client

“our weekly installs had surged tenfold”

Top 1-10positions for more keywords, in one month

Health & Fitness app, Canada

We decided to give our app a boost in Canada because, despite our previous efforts in optimization, it was consistently ranked low for most keywords. The app now ranks in the top 1-10 for more keywords, and our visibility score (checked through Apptweak) also took a nice jump. Within just a month, we began to see tangible results – the app started attracting more installs, and by the end of the campaign, our weekly installs had surged tenfold.

Rene, Product Marketing Manager

Positions and visibility score checked by the client in Apptweak

// 08 WITH CUSTOMER CARE

Self-serve, with someone who sets it up with you

Every account comes with a customer care manager. Not a sales call, and not a gate before the prices: a person who looks at your rating volume with you before you order.

Olivia from Rankforgecustomer care manager, in the platform chat
Hi! We ordered 300 ratings and the average has barely moved. Did something break?
OHi! Nothing broke. The ratings are landing, but the store recalculates the average on its own schedule, so the number on your page follows a day or two behind.
OThe other half of it is how many ratings you already have. On an app with thousands of them, a few hundred new ones move the average slowly, and that is arithmetic rather than delivery.
So should I just order more at once?
OI would keep the daily pace where it is and run longer instead. A burst on an app that collects two ratings a week reads differently from a steady climb.
OSend me the app and I will look at your rating volume with you before you order more.

A real answer from our support, shortened for the page.

// 09 FAQ

Questions asked before a first campaign

What exactly is this?
Ratings from the people who install your app through the campaign. It is an add-on to the install rather than a separate product: installs run, ratings are switched on, and each install costs a little more.
Which stores are supported?
The App Store. Google Play campaigns run on automated installs, and an automated install leaves no rating, so ratings are not available there.
Where does the rating come from?
From people. A person searches your keyword or opens your link, installs the app, opens it, and rates it.
Why does a rating affect installs so much?
It sits next to your app in search results and at the top of your store page. People compare it against the alternatives before they read anything else, so it filters traffic from every source you run.
Do the results last?
Ratings move with recent activity, so a single burst fades as newer ratings come in. Campaigns are paced over time and sized to your rating volume rather than delivered all at once.
Which countries can I run this in?
Up to 150 countries, at the same price in each of them.
// 10 GET STARTED

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Pick the app, the market, and the keywords you want to move. You set the volume each one needs, and you see what it costs before you commit to anything.

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