Hey! That's my keyword (TeslaLED Flashlight)!
I do agree that keyword spam doesn't seem big enough of an offense for
your whole account to be deleted.
Any chance one of your other apps did something that could've been
considered malware? Maybe Tiny was just caught in the mix and the
target was a different app.
Good luck,
-Kevin
On Jun 15, 1:15 am, Romain Guy <romain...@android.com> wrote:
> After the list of devices you have the following:
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> "Torch, Light, Camera, Flash, Color, Dark, Bright, Brightness,
> Brightest, Lights, Signal, Find Keys, Screen, Effects, brightest
> flashlight, Emergency, Warning, Police, brightest led flash,
> DroidLight, Maximum, Backlight, Best, Great, Fun, Cool, Coolest,
> Widget, led flashlight, led flash, led light, brightest led
> flashlight, camera light, color flashlight, color flash, tesla, bright
> light, brightness, flash camera, flash, cam light, screen light, light
> effects, simple flashlight, search, screen brightness, brightest app,
> max brightness, maximum brightness, dark, darkness, police light,
> emergency light"
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> This looks to me like you overdid it a little bit ;-)
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> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:02 PM, n.a <devuni...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Jun 15, 8:40 am, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > What Google has to do is to create a separate Tags input field in the
> >> > market admin panel, give it some limit and then let the developers
> >> > compete. This is the fair way.
>
> >> In your case, 2/3 of your app description was keywords
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> > I'm sorry, but this is not true. You can still see it here:
> >http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/com.devuni.flash...
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> > Also, most of the "keywords" are just device models, which the
> > flashlight works on.
>
> > -- so you were
> >> by far one of the worst violators. Perhaps one of your competitors
> >> reported you for stealing from them and Google acted on it. I have no
> >> idea.
> >> Is there anything stopping you from creating a new account, paying the
> >> $25 again and republishing your app? It's not ideal, but since you
> >> have a free app, it's not like you have to migrate the users. If your
> >> app is good, and I believe it was, your rank would rise fairly quickly.
>
> > This is a workaround. I hope that Google will change their internal
> > policy and start warning the developers before deleting applications
> > and accounts.
>
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