Making sure your app is discoverable in the Marketplace is important. This page outlines some basics about how the Marketplace rates and ranks search results.
There are two key places that customers find your app in Atlassian Marketplace:
The Marketplace homepage has several sections enabling customers to discover apps. The primary navigation equips the customers to find apps based on products, categories, and collections. Each product page includes apps for the respective products and customers can further refine their search using filters. The collections also act as another avenue for customers to explore apps that have performed well based on different parameters.
Multiple factors determine an app’s Marketplace search visibility. While we encourage you to consider all of the best practices below to make it easier for customers to discover your app on the Marketplace, the most important factor is search relevance. The remaining factors (Paid via Atlassian, Ratings & Reviews, Installs, Staff Picks, and Age) impact search visibility only in the event of a tiebreaker.
App listings that are optimized for search keywords will appear higher in search results.
Best practice: optimizing search keyword relevance is the most effective way to optimize your Marketplace search visibility. First, take the time to understand what customers are searching for and how Marketplace search works. Next, optimize the search keywords on your app listing accordingly.
Customers usually search for apps as a solution to a problem. Consider what language your customers are using to describe their problem or solution, and optimize the keywords on your app listing accordingly. For example, you could provide clear descriptions of what problems your app solves, how your app solves those problems, and bring your app’s functionality to life with example use cases.
When a customer searches for apps, the results are ranked based on the relevance of the search term. Relevance is based on how well the search term matches the following app fields, in order of importance:
Check out Build your presence on Marketplace to learn where these fields appear on your listing.
When a customer searches for apps, the results are ranked based on the relevance of the search term. In the event of a tiebreaker, a search rank score is determined based on the metrics below (Paid via Atlassian, Ratings & Reviews, Installs, Staff Picks, and Age). Because each metric contributes to a cumulative custom search ranking score, we encourage you to consider all of the best practices below.
Apps that are paid via Atlassian will score higher on this metric.
Best practice: If you’re not already a Marketplace Partner, consider becoming one by making your app Paid via Atlassian. Marketplace Partners enjoy exclusive co-marketing opportunities and have access to additional resources accessible only on Partner Portal.
Read the criteria to make your app Paid via Atlassian here.
Apps with high review scores will score higher on this metric.
A quantitative review score is generated based on combination of both star ratings and quantity of ratings. Without this balanced review score, apps with many reviews but low ratings would gain unfair advantage, as would apps with fewer reviews but high ratings.
Best practice: Take the time to read and respond to reviews. This can surface actionable customer insights and product suggestions, show customers that their feedback matters to you, and ultimately incentivize your customers to review your app and improve its search visibility.
Just don’t do it. Marketplace Partners who publish fake ratings & reviews diminish trust in the Marketplace, erode goodwill in our community, and are subject to removal from the Marketplace.
Fake ratings & reviews are defined as a positive, neutral or negative review that is not an actual user's impartial opinion or does not reflect a user's genuine experience of the app.
Atlassian is taking the below steps to identify and respond to Marketplace Partners who falsify ratings & reviews in an attempt to boost search rankings:
Programmatic and reporting steps are in-progress, and we will provide an updated timeline soon.
Apps with more active installations will score higher on this metric.
This takes into account all installs since the app was listed on Marketplace, and counts all installs across cloud, data center, and server.
Active installs are defined as –
Best practice: Participate in community and marketplace programs and conversations to learn more about the features and functionality that customers look for in apps. You may then optimize your app functionality and listing to solve customer pain.
We’re constantly working to improve the discoverability and visibility of your apps, as well as working to ensure customers can easily find the most relevant apps for their needs. As such, we highlight staff picks and app collections to help customers solve problems and customize their Atlassian products.
Q: How is it possible that an app with fewer installs than my app appears higher in search results?
A: Many metrics contribute to search rankings, and installs is only one of them. To learn more about these metrics, see the best practices above. Most likely, the keywords on your page are not aligned to the keywords used in the search. To learn more about how to optimize the keywords on your page, see the search relevance section above.
Q: How do I know search rankings are not biased?
A: Marketplace Search is managed by Algolia, a 3rd party search and discovery platform trusted by over 11,000 companies, including Salesforce, Adobe, Slack and other B2B SaaS marketplace peers. Algolia has quantitative rules and metrics that govern how apps are ranked in Marketplace search results. To learn more about these metrics, see the best practices above.
Q: Algolia also offers search ranking based on geography. What is that? Is it relevant for us?
A: This metric is not relevant to Marketplace search. Search ranking based on geolocation is relevant when we have entities that have latitude and longitude in them. For example, an e-commerce store shows available inventory to shoppers in a particular geographic region. For such use cases, Algolia provides a way to rank the results based on users' lat and long and thus provide the search results.
Q: Which of the tiebreaker metrics (Paid via Atlassian, Ratings & Reviews, Installs, Staff Picks, and Age) contribute the most to the search rank score?
A: It varies search by search. The formula that Algolia uses does not assign a weight to each of the metrics. Because these metrics are tiebreakers, the weighting of each metric will ultimately depend on how your app listing performs relative to other apps that are also relevant to the search term. Remember, the most important factor in determining an app’s search ranking is Search Relevance.
Q: Do apps with security badges appear higher in search results?
A: Not directly. Badges are not a metric in search rankings. However, if you have submitted your app to be considered for the spotlight, bestseller, and rising star badges, and if the app receives those badges, then it would count as a metric in search rankings. Learn more about the Cloud Fortified Apps Program here. Learn more about the Marketplace Security Bug Bounty Program here. Learn more about the Privacy and Security tab here.
Q: Do apps with a recent version appear higher in search?
A: Yes, but rarely – the app version update date can serve as a tiebreaker in the unlikely event that all other metrics score the same.
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