Mid-tier market

App Store Keyword Research: Argentina

Argentina is a major Latin American market β€” Spanish localisation for Mexico also covers Argentina.

Market overview

Storefront code
AR
Market tier
Mid-tier market
Primary search language
Spanish
Storefronts this metadata reaches
15 storefronts

What to know about this market

Argentina is a major Latin American market β€” Spanish localisation for Mexico also covers Argentina.

Difficulty scores are lower in Argentina than Mexico for the same Spanish terms.

How to research keywords in Argentina

Search here happens in Spanish, so the candidate list has to be built in that language, not translated from an English one.

Argentina rewards a second pass. Volume is real but competition has not caught up with it, so terms that are locked in the major storefronts are often still open here.

  1. Build the candidate list in Spanish. Translating an English list is the common mistake. Pull the terms from Argentina App Store listings and from what competitors put in their subtitle, because Spanish search habits rarely map word for word onto English ones.
  2. Score for popularity in this storefront specifically. Popularity is calibrated per storefront, so scores here read lower than the US for the same term without meaning less. Judge candidates against each other in Argentina, not against your home market, and treat 25 as the floor.
  3. Check difficulty. Filter to difficulty below 50. This market carries meaningful volume with consistently less competition than the major storefronts, which is the whole reason to work it.
  4. Write the metadata for Argentina. The same Spanish metadata is indexed in 15 storefronts, so a term you add here is working in all of them. Score your list in the largest of those before you commit the 100 characters.

Metadata allocation for the Argentina storefront

Three indexable fields, 160 characters between them, and the writing system decides how far they stretch.

  • App Name, 30 characters. Your brand plus the single highest-demand term you can defend in Argentina. This field carries the most ranking weight of the three, so it takes the term you most want and can plausibly reach, not the one with the biggest popularity score.
  • Subtitle, 30 characters. Two or three secondary terms in Spanish. It is indexed and it is also the line a searcher reads before deciding to tap, so it has to survive being read as a sentence by a Spanish speaker.
  • Keyword field, 100 characters. Latin script, so the 100-character keyword field holds roughly 12 to 16 single words. Drop plurals and stop words: the algorithm matches word stems and builds phrases from the terms you supply, so every repeated word is a wasted character. Never repeat a word already used in the name or subtitle; those are indexed already, and the field is the one place where a wasted character is a term you could have had.

Where your Spanish metadata also ranks

Apple indexes metadata by language, not by country. One Spanish keyword field is live in 15 storefronts.

Writing Spanish metadata for Argentina is not a single-market decision. The same 100 characters are indexed in 14 other storefronts, where the same terms carry different demand and, more usefully, different difficulty. A term that is closed in Argentina is frequently open in the smaller markets on this list, and it costs nothing extra to rank there.

Frequently asked questions

What language should I use for App Store keywords in Argentina?
The primary search language in Argentina is Spanish. Keywords in Spanish are needed to capture most of the search demand. English-only metadata will miss the majority of Argentina App Store searches.
Is the Argentina App Store worth targeting?
Argentina is a worthwhile secondary target. Keyword difficulty tends to be lower than the major markets for the same search intent, making it a good expansion market.
How does Argentina keyword difficulty compare to the US?
Argentina's keyword difficulty is substantially below major markets for most categories. This makes it a low-effort way to capture App Store users in an underserved market.
How many storefronts does one Spanish keyword field cover?
15. Apple indexes App Store metadata by language rather than by country, so a single Spanish keyword field is live in Argentina and 14 other storefronts. Score your candidate list in each of them before committing the 100 characters, because difficulty varies between them even though the metadata does not.

Storefronts to compare with Argentina

Markets that search in Spanish come first, then neighbours in the same region.

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