Hey, this is the Daily Overpass, my name is Eric and I make apps!
Now today I wanna tell you about how Ear Agent is back on the play store!
Ok guess what?
My biggest app, Ear Agent, which was suspended last week, is now back on the app market!
I am so happy!
Yeah!
You know what?
So here's what happened.
Yesterday when I did the video saying how I actually went through the appeal, so I did
my first appeal immediately after it was suspended last week.
So if you haven't seen all the videos in the last week, and I know I've been talking about
this to death, it was rejected, it made us a few thousand a month and it was such a blow!
It was a blow because it was my biggest app, the biggest money earner that we have for
passive income.
So I've been kind of moping around for a few days, then I just accepted it, move on, we'll
take on more client work, everything like that.
But yesterday I went through and I was saying how that first appeal, the response I got
to it and I mentioned that I submitted a second appeal afterwards based on that information.
So that second appeal actually went through.
And what I did is I said - because i thought it was the concept of the app, I thought it
was the whole idea of the app was the reason that it was rejected and it wasn't, it was
the keywords that I was using, the category it was in, you know, things like that and
it was just that suspension.
Like I talked about before, the one punishment you have on google play is "tch!"
So that was the case and a lot of you guys have been giving me comments and advice over
the last week.
AXgamesoft, you said the other day that I should probably try to appeal to somebody,
like a real actual person.
I got an email from Neurol earlier saying "I think you should try again" and quite a
few of you guys were saying "I think you should try again", and have you ever given advice
to someone who just insists on wanting to feel sorry for themselves, like you've gone
"I think you should try again, all hope is not lost", and they're just like "no, I tried,
it's not gonna..you know, I appreciate what you're saying but you don't know my situation",
so the kind of person who just won't take good advice.
This guy right here.
So i apologise for that.
So I finally did it and I re-appealed the application and I said "look, I get what I'm
doing wrong, if I go through and I make these changes to the description and the title and
the metadata, I'll remove any permissions that I had in there that I probably put in
for some stupid ad network that I've added in over the years that I no longer need.
If I go through and I just do all that stuff and I re-submit it, do you think we could
do it?
I understand if we can't, but there's thousands of users out there, a lot of them really like
the application and I would love to be able to put it back out there."
And this morning I got the email saying "yes, it's been resubmitted".
So, a lot of the time we talk about how these are big faceless organisations and that there's
nobody out there willing to help you, but a lot of the time that's not the case.
Sometimes you just need to keep, sometimes that second appeal is the one that actually
went through.
Now, I resubmitted it today and I hope I got it, because they don't give you a lot of details.
That's one thing, so I'm hoping that I got everything the way that it should be.
The guidelines are a bit vague in some areas, because you could take an app and interpret
it like dude, I shouldn't even release an app at all!
So I made those changes and everything like that.
some of you guys have already seen it on the app store, even though it was just put back
on there like an hour ago, and you've already commented on it on the video a few days ago
because we're a few days ahead, so you'll see this tomorrow for me.
Anyway, I just wanna let you guys know that.
We all deal with app suspensions.
This is one of the things I'm taking away from this.
It's not that I'm out of the hot water now because first of all, it's been off of the
market for a week, so I have no idea the knock on effect.
i don't know how it's gonna affect revenue, I don't know how its gonna affect keyword
rankings, all that kind of stuff, and even admob's not been put back on again, so when
they remove the app admob, they remove their ads as well so it's back on the app store.
As of right now I'm appealing to admob rejection so they can turn their ads back on and then
we'll see how it goes.
But it's still - what it shows me is that that was too big a crutch.
That was something that I can no longer rely on because it can be gone like that, and I
think it's something that all of us app developers have to think about, but at least for right
now it's back from the dead.
And we'll see.
Who knows, maybe in a few days they'll remove it again for something that I missed, but
I hope not!
Ultimately, none of us really want to do anything that's bad on the app store.
I think a lot of time we just try to push the boundaries a little bit, which I'm not
gonna do anymore! not gonna push any boundaries, but it would be nice if I knew exactly where
those boundaries are!
So anyway, just a little bit of good news today.
i hope you guys have a fantastic weekend, but I'll be talking to you tomorrow and that's
it for today, I'll talk to you guys tomorrow!