rshankras/web-presence
skills/app-store/web-presence/SKILL.md
The discovery surfaces outside the App Store app — your apps.apple.com product page ranking on Google, an owned landing page with a Smart App Banner, and the deal-site ecosystem that auto-amplifies price drops. Use when building a landing page, improving Google visibility for an app, planning a price-drop promotion, or auditing off-store discovery.
$ install --global
skillsauthnpx skillsauth add rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills web-presenceInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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SKILL.md
- name:
- web-presence
- description:
- The discovery surfaces outside the App Store app — your apps.apple.com product page ranking on Google, an owned landing page with a Smart App Banner, and the deal-site ecosystem that auto-amplifies price drops. Use when building a landing page, improving Google visibility for an app, planning a price-drop promotion, or auditing off-store discovery.
- allowed-tools:
- [Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep]
- last_verified:
- 2026-07-16
- review_by:
- 2027-06-22
Web Presence
Every app has a public web page at apps.apple.com that ranks in Google — most developers never
work that surface. Pair it with an owned landing page and the deal-site ecosystem and the open
web becomes a free acquisition channel that compounds with everything on-store.
When This Skill Activates
- "Make my app findable on Google" / no results for the app's own name
- Building or reviewing a product landing page
- Planning a temporary price drop or sale
- The store-growth audit flags P6.6 (web presence) or P7.5 (deal sites)
Surface 1: The apps.apple.com page is a Google citizen
The store page's Google snippet draws from your app name, subtitle, and description opening
— one more reason the first description paragraph must be benefit-led plain language (see
app-store/app-description-writer).
- ✅ Search your app's name + category terms on Google periodically; if the store page doesn't
rank for your own brand, something is wrong (usually a generic name — see
product/app-namer). - ✅ Ratings, price, and In-App Purchase labels appear in the snippet — per-storefront ratings
mechanics apply (
app-store/ratings-mechanics). - ❌ Treating the store URL as un-shareable internal plumbing. It's often your best-ranking page;
link to it from everywhere (with
?pt=provider token for attribution where you need source data).
Surface 2: An owned landing page + Smart App Banner
One page, one job: convert a web visitor into a store visitor.
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Structure: name + one-line promise → 2–3 screenshots or a short capture → social proof → a prominent Download on the App Store badge (Apple's official artwork, linked with your attribution token).
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Smart App Banner — one meta tag; Safari renders a native install/open banner:
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=YOUR_APP_ID, app-argument=https://yourapp.com/from-web">✅ The banner shows Open for installed users — deep-linking into the app, down to specific in-app content via
app-argument— and View for everyone else, opening the App Store in one tap. ❌ Custom "download our app" interstitials — the native banner already does this for free. -
App Store Marketing Tools (tools.applemediaservices.com) — use for referral links, QR codes, and localized badge assets instead of hand-rolling them.
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The landing page is also where pre-launch waitlists live (TestFlight public link — see
product/beta-testing) and where press/link-in-bio traffic should land, because you can measure it before it enters the store funnel. -
App Clips can front the landing page with an instant experience (
generators/app-clip).
Surface 3: The deal-site ecosystem
Deal aggregators scrape App Store price drops automatically — no submission needed, just drop the price.
Price drop → aggregator listing → download spike → chart climb → organic downloads that outlive the sale. Velocity is the product; the discounted revenue is the cost of the campaign.
- ✅ Drop meaningfully (50%+ or free-for-a-day reads as a deal; 10% doesn't scrape well).
- ✅ Time drops to compound: with an in-app event, a seasonal moment, or the announced On-Sale
badge surface (see
generators/in-app-events), and have the next release ready so climbers land on a fresh listing. - ✅ Prompt for ratings during the spike window — sale users rate too, and the count sticks after prices recover.
- ❌ Permanent-discount theater (always "90% off") — scrapers and users both learn to ignore it, and review teams notice manipulated anchor pricing.
- ❌ Dropping the price of a subscription app's download — use offer codes instead
(
generators/offer-codes-setup).
Output Format
Audit report:
Google: brand query rank · store-page snippet quality (name/subtitle/desc opener)
Landing page: live? banner tag? attribution token? waitlist path?
Deal readiness: pricing model compatible? last drop + result? next planned window?
Each gap routed: copy fixes → app-store/app-description-writer; page build → this skill;
price-drop plan → this skill + monetization pricing.
References
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/promoting-apps-with-smart-app-banners
- https://developer.apple.com/app-store/marketing/guidelines/
- https://tools.applemediaservices.com/ (official badges & link builder)
- Related skills:
app-store/app-description-writer,generators/app-clip,product/beta-testing,generators/offer-codes-setup,growth/store-growth-audit
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