I'm trying to find a way to have an international vs. country App Store link for various promotions that appear worldwide (as most websites do).
The AppStoreMarketingGuidelines are unclear about this, saying only: < Linking to the App Store -- You must provide a link to your application on the App Store wherever the App Store badge is used. To obtain the URL for your application on the App Store, go to your product page in iTunes. Right-click or Control-click your application listing and choose Copy URL. Embed the URL in the App Store badge or your marketing copy. >
Which is what I'm doing for U.S. store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/[APPNAME]/[ID#]
...but there are 123 country stores with 123 country codes, and ads and promotions are seen worldwide, so how does a /us/ address help or even work for the other 122? Is there a wildcard to substitute for the country code or something?
I just checked some Italian blog posts mentioning my apps, and one linked to the US store, which makes no sense to me, because Italians cannot buy from the U.S. if their iTunes account is on the Italian store. Correct? (I know a French guy who could not buy an app on a trip to U.S. because his account was in France)
But two other Italian blogs created their own affiliate links which went straight to the Italy store. Now that makes sense.
But I still wonder if there is a universal/international code to put in the links going out. Any ideas?
Aha! that makes perfect sense. I realize now that I originally got this URL line from my iTunesConnect and "View in App Store", and since I'm in US, that's the version I got and started using. And I didn't see that there was that country /us/ buried in there. I just tried removing /us/ from the live URLs and it came back to same Preview page in what I suppose is a "universal" page, so that seems to work.
And then I guess if a person clicks on "View in iTunes" button from that page, they'll end up going to their country's iTunes store, eh?
Brilliant! Am changing my outgoing messages and releases right now.
Italians cannot buy from the U.S. if their iTunes account is on the Italian store. Correct?
Correct - You can only buy from the store that matches with the billing address of your credit card.
Also, the tweak with removing the two letter country code only works if the ID is the same across all stores. A lot of apps have the same ID world wide but not all.
Correct - You can only buy from the store that matches with the billing address of your credit card.
Also, the tweak with removing the two letter country code only works if the ID is the same across all stores. A lot of apps have the same ID world wide but not all.
Apps that don't have the same ID is simply because the publisher did create 2 different binaries. An app get associated to one and only one ID, so don't worry about looking all the stores to see if your app has a different ID somewhere else: it will not.
International App Store Links?
There can be only one
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