Been doing SEO/positioning work on my own Actor li...
# creators-and-apify
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Been doing SEO/positioning work on my own Actor listing recently, a few things I found that might be useful: 1. Store search has two indexes that don't stay in sync — the website search (apify.com/store/categories?search=...) picked my Actor up within a couple days, but the Store API (api.apify.com/v2/store) still doesn't show it. If you're checking discoverability via the API, that alone could make you think you're invisible when you're actually indexed. 2. Ranking correlates strongly with the Actor quality score, and that score leans heavily on popularity/feedback/run history — all of which need users first. So it's a bit of a loop: no rank → no users → no rank. Breaking it seems to need traffic from outside the Store, not just README tweaks. 3. On "getting featured" — looked into the official Featured Devs/Actors program a couple days ago. There was a real cohort picked back in April 2025, but nothing since then that I could find — looks stalled, not something you can apply for right now. Haven't cracked discovery myself either, curious what you find.