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How does rankings decided, based on what exact data?

A topic by Carnal Studio created 3 days ago Views: 79 Replies: 1
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I am %99 sure that this isn't the right place to ask this, but I also do not know where to ask, so I assumed since this was "not fit anywhere else" part of the forum, I decided to ask here.


We see "top rated" "popular" "new and popular" and "most recent" ones when we see rankings. Most recent seems quite easy to figure out, whatever is the most recent game with that tag which was released.

What I want to know, what exact factors go into calculating the others? Is it downloads? Is it clicks? Is it clicks from outside? Is it purchases? What exactly does the data look like, and what makes it top ranked. 

I want to learn this, because on my next game, if there is something I am doing wrong, or if there is something I can do to help myself, I would like to know, and do that, to get myself ranked better. The current one never even ranked at popular before, I mean pretty sure it was ranked somewhere very down, but even though I scrolled a lot, I couldn't find it :D ıts not that much highly ranked game, so I want to make sure, if I know what makes it ranked better, I may at least try to do that.

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Please read this old topic. Edit: but consider there are literally a million other games here whose creators also want them to rank better. You should focus on having a good quality game with a good quality page and promoting it yourself.