See this part:
You may use devlogs to announce a large update, and that may contribute to how your page is ranked.In short: you can't rely on this method.
Also, promotion takes patience. You latest project isn't three weeks old yet. Speaking of which: posting new project pages all the time instead of working on your old ones is only going to look suspicious and lose any popularity gains that come with time.
I do not quite understand what you are talking about.
Uploading on a new account will not help promotion.
Deleting and reuploading will not help actual promotion. If you all you get is 5 minute fame for being on https://itch.io/feed?filter=new_games that is not promotion. It is accidental traffic. Building an audience this way is playing lottery games. And regular users will recognise you and might report you for spamming.
If you upload a new project that actually is an old project you lose your audience. You start at 0. No comments. No ratings. No collections. No trust. You do not want to be found in https://itch.io/games/newest you want to be found in https://itch.io/games (that appears when you click "popular" and is the default sort)
You can get the 5 minute boost again if you do a major update and post a devlog about it. But those have to be approved by staff and they do not do that for all devlogs.
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If you complained about the misleading naming of the recent section, I agree!
They should make two recent sortings. One for updates, so the people doing updates without bragging with devlogs are sorted accordingly and a sorting by publishing date. With added protections against abuse and spamming. Because that's what people will do. Abuse the system for that 5 minute fame, because they think that being visible on recent is promotion.
I do not understand the question.
Not only do you not have to delete games, you should not do so without a good reason. Updating is not such a reason. https://itch.io/t/3693485/do-not-update-your-games-by-deleting-them-and-uploadin... And neither is "promotion". https://itch.io/docs/creators/quality-guidelines#avoid-uploading-reskins-or-many...
You can contact Itch in various ways. https://itch.io/support There is also a feedback button.
Contacting game developers depends on the developer. Look at your own profile to see an example. Some developers cannot be contacted directly or at all.
