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To add to the discussion, and to dangrossman's analysis: I offer the following recommendations. You should do these before considering any re-submission of you
by Arjuna 11y ago
To add to the discussion, and to dangrossman's analysis:
I offer the following recommendations. You should do these before considering any re-submission of your app:
1. I took a look at a cached version of your app's page. I recommend removing all references to all competitor's products. As an example, copy like this needs to be removed entirely:
"Compare to voice assistants and chatbots such as Siri, Nuance, Dragon, Vlingo, Evi, Voice, VoiceSearch, SpeaktoIt Assistant, Skyvi and Google Now, as well as GPS navigation such as Waze, Scout, MapQuest, Navigon, Garmin, TomTom, MotionX, Yelp, etc."
This is in violation of Google's keyword spam policy, as you are using references to, "popular search terms and competitor apps."
2. Remove all user reviews from your app's description section. For example, you need to remove the following line:
"Users say: 'After trying S-Voice, Assistant, Skyvi or Hound ...Robin is the best voice app of its kind; clearly the best choice for drivers in need of information on the road.'"
This violates the section of the policy that states: "Please do not include user testimonials in your app description. They tend to be dubious and are frequently utilized to include references to popular search terms and competitor apps in violation of the policies outlined here. Let your users speak for themselves via Play's comment review system."
3. Remove all references to competitor apps in your actual app. For example, I see on the cached page that you have a reference to Siri in one of the screen images (e.g., the image that says, "Why don't you ask Siri?")
4. I checked out your website. Again, I recommend removing all references to competitor's apps. For example, you directly compare your product to Siri on the following page, and use that product's name at least 5 times: http://robingets.me/robinlabs/html/technology.html http://robingets.me/robinlabs/html/technology.html . I recommend that you avoid this. Instead, the copy should position your technology to stand on the merit and strength of what it has to offer, in its own right.
Best of luck.