<story><title>Tell HN: You can&apos;t add “no ads” in your Play Store app&apos;s title</title><text>Due to the recent Play Store changes you can no longer &amp;quot;add text or images that indicate store performance or ranking, or suggest relations to existing Google Play programs in the app title&amp;quot; [1].
You can&amp;#x27;t, for example, add &amp;quot;#1&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;free&amp;quot;. However, you can&amp;#x27;t also add &amp;quot;no ads&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;To be precise: appending &amp;quot;[small, no ads]&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;[no ads]&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;[without ads]&amp;quot; to the play store app title causes a rejection. I didn&amp;#x27;t want to test more in fear of banning, and in the end removed it.
I know you can see if an app contains ads in the app page, but not in the search results... or at least not yet, but I doubt Google will add that indication.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;googleplay&amp;#x2F;android-developer&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;9898684&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;googleplay&amp;#x2F;android-developer&amp;#x2F;answ...&lt;/a&gt;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>Good?&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s the alternative? Have a crappy, paid-for, add filled, bloated app promote itself as &amp;quot;Cauliflower Cooker Lite - the #1 free cauliflower app. 100% ad-free&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Metadata like file size, whether there are in-app ads or purchases, etc, should be part of the store&amp;#x27;s listing - not the title.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whimsicalism</author><text>&amp;gt; Metadata like file size, whether there are in-app ads or purchases, etc, should be part of the store&amp;#x27;s listing - not the title.&lt;p&gt;???? Did I miss the part where Google announced they were adding &lt;i&gt;searchable&lt;/i&gt; metadata at the same time they eliminated adding this info to the title?&lt;p&gt;If not, seems like a clearly anti-consumer move.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: You can&apos;t add “no ads” in your Play Store app&apos;s title</title><text>Due to the recent Play Store changes you can no longer &amp;quot;add text or images that indicate store performance or ranking, or suggest relations to existing Google Play programs in the app title&amp;quot; [1].
You can&amp;#x27;t, for example, add &amp;quot;#1&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;best&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;free&amp;quot;. However, you can&amp;#x27;t also add &amp;quot;no ads&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;To be precise: appending &amp;quot;[small, no ads]&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;[no ads]&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;[without ads]&amp;quot; to the play store app title causes a rejection. I didn&amp;#x27;t want to test more in fear of banning, and in the end removed it.
I know you can see if an app contains ads in the app page, but not in the search results... or at least not yet, but I doubt Google will add that indication.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;googleplay&amp;#x2F;android-developer&amp;#x2F;answer&amp;#x2F;9898684&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;support.google.com&amp;#x2F;googleplay&amp;#x2F;android-developer&amp;#x2F;answ...&lt;/a&gt;</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>edent</author><text>Good?&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s the alternative? Have a crappy, paid-for, add filled, bloated app promote itself as &amp;quot;Cauliflower Cooker Lite - the #1 free cauliflower app. 100% ad-free&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Metadata like file size, whether there are in-app ads or purchases, etc, should be part of the store&amp;#x27;s listing - not the title.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tut-urut-utut</author><text>&amp;gt; What&amp;#x27;s the alternative? Have a crappy, paid-for, add filled, bloated app promote itself as &amp;quot;Cauliflower Cooker Lite - the #1 free cauliflower app. 100% ad-free&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s what we have on Amazon now. Looks like every single product contain all the metadata in product title. SEO spam from top to the bottom of the search results page.&lt;p&gt;I hate it, but given how crappy filtering on both Amazon and Play store is, I still prefer to see more information about a product in the search result list than less, even if that means bloated titles.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if both Amazon and Play store had usable filtering, all these bloated names would not be needed.</text></comment>