Anyone know how I can get my game to show up over bot games in the search results?

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#1

I don’t know the right category exactly for something like this so sorry in advance if this fits somewhere else.

Hello everyone, I am RobloxPro900000, and I am kind of scratching my head on how to deal with this problem. Currently I am working on a game by myself, and the game is called “Switch!” The problem I am encountering is that when you search “Switch” or “Switch!” a bunch of bot or spam games appear as a large amount of the first results, and from what I have seen you have to do some scrolling to find my game.
Here is a picture of the first 2 rows of results when you type “Switch” in the search bar:

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Now here is a picture of my game once you find it if you type “Switch!” in the search bar:

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My game is the circled one, it is in the 10th row of results, and it is the 75th result. Is there anyway I can get around this problem? I tried throwing in a few tags at the bottom of my game description today in hopes that this could allow more players to find my game when searching, however I don’t think it would be enough. I’d love to hear what anyone has to say or their thoughts, as well as if there is something recommended I do to help.
Something I would like to say as the exact title of the game is: Switch! [Beta]
I am mentioning this because if you search that exactly or search something like “Switch Beta” my game does pop up. I just wanna try to get my game to be the first result just by searching the main title, similar to how if you were to search just Jailbreak then Jailbreak would be the first result without needing any of the extra stuff they have in the game title.

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#2

Honestly, your best bet is to just try and grow a higher playerbase than the bot games so you show at the top of the list.

#3

To move up on the search query, you need to have more concurrent players / total visits than the other games that are being searched. Best choice would be renaming your game to something that isn’t infested with bots.

This is only available to the front page games, not all of them have access to that.

#4

Roblox has gotten better with the search results in the past weeks, if your game is good enough it will show up there.

#5

Ok. I think I was starting to piece this together with what @srauf1 was saying. This is good to know as I am not 100% sure about how the search algorithm works. I will keep this in mind! As for the name change I was thinking about that, but first I need to think of a name that suits the game. I was going to end up changing the name because I don’t think the current name suits what I am going for.