After creating both a Chrome Web Store listing as well as a duplicate listing tuned for the Google Apps Marketplace, I have filled out the Marketplace Listing Review Request. I've had to edit the second listing several times as I've uncovered issues like not including the app member in the manifest, and I have no idea of the overall status of the request. Is there a way to find out?
My big concern is that something is still not right or that I might have missed a step or done something else wrong in the process of submitting the listing. Since there's no obvious validation around the Marketplace Listing Review request, I'm not 100% sure if I'm doing it perfectly. This is my first listing. Help?
First step would be to provide your Chrome Web Store Item ID as jonathanberi mentioned. Once you do that I can take a look at the application for you.
The reality is that we don't check and test new GAM applications every single day. It's more accurate to say that your application will be checked within 1-2 weeks from publication. If there are any issues, I or someone else on the curation team, will reach out to you to let you know of the problem and it's severity. Most of the time the issues aren't serious enough to warrant immediate removal from the Google Apps Marketplace and simply need to be fixed within a 30 day time frame.
So, long story short, no news is good news for GAM publications. If you don't hear anything from us within 2-3 weeks of your publication date, you can safely assume that your application has met all of our listing requirements.
I had the same problems and spoke to some very helpful folks at Google. Here is a summary of what they said:
Time taken to hear back: For new submissions their SLA for reviewing is 8 business days, but they usually do better than that.
Time taken for your app to show up on Google Apps Marketplace: 12-24 hours. When they approve an item it is automatically send to the public store, however it takes time to be shown in the Google Apps Marketplace search results due to cache propagation as time is taken for their robots to find it, index it and get it ready. (as of Jan 2017)
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I try to make developer account on play store and the fee is deducted but when try sign in it, it's takes me to register page while searching about this I found it take 48 hours to activate so try to wait but after 48 hours it still takes me to register page. I also try to mail but they are not replying what to do now ??
One Word Patient ... Google in their site mentioned that PROBABLY will be some delay. For my second account took me months.
Due to adjusted work schedules at this time, you may experience longer than usual review times for your app.
In order to help ensure we are providing users with accurate and timely information relating to COVID-19, we are currently prioritizing the review and publication of apps published, commissioned, or authorized by official government entities and public health organizations. Any apps referencing COVID-19, or related terms, must meet these requirements.
In Context if they take long time for reviewing apps, so is the account.
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I am many errors on my Maps API Console.
I am the website owner, not the developer or webmaster.
Got an email from Google about new pricing. Below is the email.
Today we are announcing important changes, including our new name - Google Maps Platform, a simplified product structure, pay as you go pricing for all, and more. Please take a few minutes to review the announcement to familiarize yourself with the upcoming changes.
We would like to highlight a few updates that may impact your implementation. Beginning June 11th, we are launching our new pricing plan and providing all users access to support. We’ll continue to offer a free tier — all developers will receive $200 of free monthly usage of our core products.
How does this affect your current account(s)?
Based on your usage over the last 3 months and our new pricing plan, we estimate that your monthly cost will exceed the current $200 free tier.
I am trying to figure out why I have so many API calls.
I am seeing in the console, that in the "Google Places API Web Service" I have alot of "Zagat content in the Places API" calls, and they all result in error.
I am trying to figure out how this is happening, but not finding any info online. I see that the "zagatselected" parameter was discarded May of 2017. I can not figure out what is causing these errors.
Everything has been working fine, I have my own API key, and have for a long while. The only reason I am really looking into this, is because Google will now start charging me monthly.
Is it possible you expose your Maps API key to the client, don't have any restrictions on it, and someone else is calling the API/raising those errors?
If you have a snippet of code like this....
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?key=[APIKEYHERE]&libraries=geometry,places&callback=initialize">
...on a public web page, it would be easy for someone else to take the API key and use it themselves, unless you add a IP or referrer restriction to only allow it to be used client-side from your website. You can set up restrictions on who can use your API key following these instructions.
I suspect that the new Google Maps and Places API pricing scheme (which significantly lowers the number of free Places API calls) might cause some less ethical users to use keys they can scrape off websites.
Recently, I have received a message from Google Play Developer saying that one app was removed:
This app has been removed from Google Play for a violation of the
Google Play Developer Program Policy regarding Ad Walls and
Interstitial Ads. For additional information, please review the
interstitial ads help article, then correct your app's ads and
resubmit. Additional details have been sent to your account owner's
email address.
So I've heard that if I get 3 strikes like this one, my account will be terminated. Is that true?
Also, I am only using Admob ads.
Google's policy here states that
Removals
Don’t impact the standing of your Google Play Developer account.
Once your app is removed, the published version of your app won’t be available on Google Play until a compliant updated is submitted.
The message you quoted says that your app was removed, so you don't have much to worry. You just have to be more careful about following the Ads guidelines. They don't want you to keep publishing many apps that don't follow the rules.
Also, they don't define exactly how many Suspensions you can have:
Suspensions
Count as strikes against the good standing of your Google Play Developer account.
Egregious or multiple policy violations can result in suspension, as can repeated app rejections or removals.
But 3, as you mentioned, seems a fair number in a short period. Remeber: your apps won't be suspended for nothing, so take care to follow correctly the instructions.
It says right there that "Additional details have been sent to your account owner's email address". So that would be the place to look to get the specifics.
There are a variety of reasons that your app may have been reported. For instance, you should probably let people know that there are ads at all. Is your app rated as "kid friendly" but the ads are not?
I'm going to guess that it has something to do with placement. For instance, if people are clicking your ad accidentally because it's too close to another actionable item, that will get you in trouble.
It could also be because someone is clicking the ad repeatedly, during testing, or to be a joker. And it's raising a flag.
You really need to do your own research to find out what the problem is.
Once you've done with that, correct the problem and try again.
I would like to update "Opening hours" for all stores of a company in Google my business, through an automated API (a REST service for example).
My customer has hundreds of stores, and currently this is done manually.
I've read there is NO automated way to do this, a user needs to fill manually every opening hour in the google my business portal.
I can't believe that, and I'm wondering how big companies with a lot of stores take care of that problem, especially for "exceptional closings", etc.
I have already search for a long, and didn't found anything.
The only ability supplied by google is to upload a list of stores, through a file, and this file doesn't contain any information regarding opening hours (am I wrong ?).
I would like to be able to update store list AND opening hours regularly, through an API (My Business, or Places).
Does google propose a such API, or do you have any suggestion to handle this concern from a programmatical point of view ?
Thank you
There was no Google API for My Business at the time when I posted my question, but meanwhile Google has released it and also provides samples for many languages : https://developers.google.com/my-business/
Thanks to eton_ceb for the notification.
I have submitted our app last week and we are yet to hear from Google. Can someone from Google give us an idea of the time frame?
Thanks.
There is no approval delay. It may take some time to list and be available in search results. Typically this would happen in 15 minutes.