As we know that now a days so many playstore developer accounts are being terminated without any reason, this is the most common confusion among the developers, what to do next now. As for full time app developers, whole bread and butter depends on app earnings, this is the worst of worst situation.
Off course the first step anyone may take is to appeal the google for tetmination. But what adds irony to the situation, that the apellate authority is here not human, but a emotionless bot, who cann’t feel, what developers suffers after being terminated. Appealing to google only lead to same automated reply
” After reviewing your appeal, we’ve confirmed our initial decision and will not be reinstating your developer account.
Your Google Play Developer account has been terminated due to multiple violations of the Developer Program Policies by an associated Google Play developer account. We’ve reviewed and confirmed this association.
Google Play Developer Console terminations are associated with developers and may span multiple account registrations and related Google services. Do not attempt to register a new developer account. Any new accounts will be closed and your developer registration fee will not be refunded.
We recommend that you use an alternative method for distributing your apps in the future.”
I also got the same reply, after I appealed to google for my developer accounts in which I had Marvel VPN, VPN shuttle, VPN drive, Transkey Translator keyboard, Marvel document scanner apps. So without delaying, I decided to make another account with new identity. So I cleared all the cookies and browsing data in my chrome browser. I installed mozilla on my PC. And I made another gmail account on that. Because I thought that may be chrome browser might send user information to google. So this time I decided to not to use chrome. But this time I used the same internet connection, since I drawn the logic that my internet connection uses dynamic IP, which changes everyday. Secondly sometimes whole society or organisation uses the same Internet connection. So google might not be foolish to track Internet connection details.
The second thing I did was to make a play developer with new credit card detail, new phone number and new address. I made some changes in app like slight change in the app name, colour change in the app layout, different package name and put a different account google analytics. I thought that making slight changes will make my apps different in the eyes of google. But I didn’t make so much changes, that it would be a different app for my uses. Actually i wanted to gain the advantage of authority of my previous app in search algorithm. For example the app name XYZ changed to XYZ plus. So if user will search XYZ, then he/she would also find XYZ plus. I changed the description of the app too, but maintaining the same keywords as previously.
I also made inhouse advt campaign in google admob for my new apps in my previous apps. Because I still had high number of impressions of my previous apps. But those impressions were not of use since admob stopped to give ad impressions, but ad units were live, as the admob was not suspended. So I decided to use those impressions for inhouse ads.
Now I began to wait for the result, I thought the app would survive, but the account again terminated after three days, with same termination email. I might have done some mistake. I am not sure but the reason for the termination may be:-
1). I logged in the new account in mozilla and opera. But I forgot to logout the previous emails from my android phone gmail app. So google bot can track how all the accounts are logged in from same IP, at same time.
2). I found that there is an information about app in signature file, but I used the same signature in over confidence. I thought the signature changes if we change the package name and app name. But now I found that there is more in app signature, which I am trying to crack.
3). Most of the people think, google suspends your new account if its bot suspects that you are banned developers. But new theory can be also, that google can also ban if it thinks you are new developer but using the search authority of previously banned app by naming the new app with similiar name as of previously banned app. So in this case new developers can also be harmed.
Some people wrote that you should get a new PC to change your identity. But I have doubt on this point, because in big organisation app development is done on shared computers and for different app versions, the organisation may use different computers to build. So how google is able to block a particular PC. However I found that app signature contains the device information and I am researching more on this, how much information app contains about the device on which app is build. Because solution to this problem can be is the build the app on same old PC but sign the app on different device like phone or PC. Because its economically not feasable to buy a new PC for every new account.
I am still in research to find some more things about this and still in progress to find cheap and hassle free solution for this. I will share more things in my coming blogs, which i will find time to time.
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