How does a new EA actually gain visibility in the MQL5 Market?

 

Hi everyone,

I would like to hear the opinions of developers who have been selling their products on the MQL5 Market for a longer time.

I am trying to understand how product visibility and ranking actually work, but it seems that there are many different opinions and observations on this subject.

I know that the exact ranking algorithm is not public, and I am not expecting anyone to reveal any confidential information. I am simply interested in the experiences of other sellers.

For example:

  • How important are demo downloads compared with actual purchases?
  • Does the seller's history or reputation affect the initial visibility of a new product?
  • How important are the first few days or weeks after publication?
  • Does external traffic from YouTube, websites, Google Ads, etc. have any measurable effect on a product's position in the Market?
  • To what extent do the quality of the product description and its translations affect visibility?
  • Can regular updates help a product regain visibility after its ranking has dropped?

There is also one thing that particularly interests me.

***Sometimes I see relatively expensive EAs, for example products priced at $1,000 or more, that accumulate dozens of purchases within a relatively short period of time.

This is interesting to me because, at least from the outside, some of these products do not seem to have a particularly large number of reviews, comments, or a long history in the Market.

 

About my personal experience -  I am posting it all the time on the forum during the many many years
(it is about Market products but it is same for the Signals and for Freelance as well):


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Sergey Golubev, 2021.01.14 09:18

  • If you bought the product from your friend or from your relative or from very active users on this forum so you can fix anything related with the sellers who are responsible about what they are selling (and because you both know each other for the long time).
  • But if you bought something from "anyone" just because you have a lot of money so - sorry:
    it is your risk, and this risk can not be turned to anyone else.

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I am posting this suggestion all the time on the forum. It is related to the Signals, the Market, and to the Freelance as well - 

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Sergey Golubev, 2020.01.16 06:35

There is one rule which some people follow:
subscribe to the signal or create an order in Freelance or purchase the product from the user/seller/coder/provider you know in person or you know by activity on the forum.

Because if you purchased something so I may ask:
"Do you know the seller in person, or you are familiar with him on this forum?"
If you say: "Not" so it will be very strange case for me ...

Just my optinion.

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There are a lot of professional and honest users/coders on the forum, and some of them are very active on this forum helping to the other people and replying on the forum posts/requests.

Always choose the person you know in this forum (who is very active here), and you will have less problems with anything.

Just my opinion sorry.


 

It means the following:

The Market is the way to give some software from one person to an other one (same with Visa/Markercard).
Means that if you are selling something on the Market so you are having a lot of clients who are asking you to provide those products to them ...
Yes, some persons had a lot of friends and possible clients so they/persons had to register themselves as the sellers to provide some indicators/EAs to the people (who are already waiting for that).
Why do I know about it? I know because some very famous persons/users (who were very popular coders on the former tsd forum) started to be a seller ... they did not need to promote themselves and their products as well.

Of course, there are some sellers who are waiting ... what for? they are waiting for some guy who occasionally will come to the product's page to buy ... and those sellers do not care about promotion in social networks and everywhere ... and they are starting to complain from time to time that no one want to buy their products ...

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Just my opinion sorry.