Google play policy states that “an entire life of a developer, he can register with only one developer console”
Once we register a console, we try our best to compliance all of our projects with the google play developer policies, but sometimes it compromises and marks as “Suspended”
Unfortunately, if we got this “App Suspension” three times, Google terminates the entire account, although he alarms us, after every suspension to review all of the apps and make it according to the policies.
We can call our first google developer console as a parent, and the rest of all we register as children, and once the parent Console is shut down by their team, the rest of all child accounts are associated with the parent and ban by the Google play store.
And Google asks with the email “Don’t try to register a new console, we will shut down it as well, and not accept it”
How to avoid it?
The question is that, if we are doing this business how can we overcome this issue and come with new and multiple consoles. I made some thumbnails, as I am in this business since 2014.
To avoid this annoying situation we have to understand how Google play team works?
Actually, the games and apps are in millions, and the Human team is not enough to deal and check all single app one by one, this is why Google play works and relies on Bots, behind the suspension most of the time these are bots intelligence to review them. So our challenge is to bypass them.
These are the following measures that we need to follow while coming back to this business with even 100 Google consoles.
- Whenever we face Google developer account suspension, we will come with new detail, like we can’t register it with the details we ever used in the previous one. Google play needs a new developer here, we will introduce a new developer. Like we can use all details of our Trusted siblings, friends, spouse, parents. Let’s say we choose Father to use him as a developer of the console.
we will use his credit card to register a new google console,
b. create an email with his name, recovery number, and all details,
d. Phone number will also be with his number,
e. we will use a new internet connection,
f. we will use a new machine as well,
g. if we are using AdMob, we will give all details of a father, even a bank account too. (no worries for startup, or Facebook audience network, we can use our details for ads platforms other than AdMob, as AdMob and Google play are under the same company)
h. we will use new gmail for promotions, in Google ads too.
i. don’t use old AdMob which google console’s suspended at any cost.Note:- don’t use VPS and online servers to run and manage your Google consoles, it’s not safe.
“I personally believe that, if a Google play console actives for years, it may return millions of USD, and our challenge is to make it safe, so that it may at least not terminate with Association, so a small investment and effort is needed as I mentioned in a, b, c, d,e, f,g,h points.”
- What if our Google console is shut down if we follow everything which is stated above?
Strange, but yes it happens, even Google console is associated after all of these steps too in some situations, but these steps are very much important to follow. Let us talk about some next-level things why it happens.
j. basically during 2019,2020,2021 Google play has introduced a policy name as “Repetitive content” which means that we can’t publish app or game which is repeatedly used over the google play store, they are called as Spam application. It happens, as it happened with many of my clients, that as we launch an application which is hit and already with so many clones, it’s under publication, and the entire console is terminated by the association. As Google play bots detects its source code to be used in some previous consoles, or script which we pick from Github, some source code selling sites, or our source code which we have been used in suspended google console. Google bots marked the whole console as spam, and they programmed it as an old developer is coming with the new console.
How to avoid it?
1. Of course we can use our source code plenty of times, but we will have to avoid the repetitive content policy, we will ask our developer and designer to change the entire layout of the game and application (change grid to list, and grid list), button placements, and the developer will develop it by taking it as a “new project” like in Android studio or Unity 3D and replace all existing source code files in the new project (for any developer it’s not a big deal).
2. Designer role is too important, he will make changes in UI, which will be much effective to avoid this policy, and he will work like that, when we launch it on google play, it will consider a new project as Bot of google when Quality assure it.
3. As we are in this business model, this is the most important rule, to follow to avoid any bad situation, we will create our build which is called signed build in the concerned machine, we can’t use one machine to exclude builds of all projects for all of our consoles. Because while building the whole path is fetched by Google play store. Whatever machine you are using for running your console, create a final build from the concerned machine, instead of signing them with one and only one machine for all of your consoles.
4. Don’t use Chrome to run your Google consoles, instead of this, use Opera, Firefox, or any other one.
It’s 2021, and to avoid any further Google play termination, you need a good machine, a teammate (Developer, designer) so that they try to develop your existing asset a new game or app, with their skills.