Life After Mobilegeddon: App Deep Linking Strategies - Pubcon October 2015

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Using Apps to Drive
Mobile-First SEO
Traffic

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Android
&
iOS Intent

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Understanding App Packs

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New Android App Packs

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Types of App Results
App Pack App Single App Carousel Deep LinksIcon Deep Links

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 Meta-data can provide a “preview” of
the type of content in the app
 You don’t know what’s IN the app until
you download it
 App Store search is heavy on brand and
head terms vs. long tail
App Store Model

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“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information
and make it universally accessible and useful.”
- Google’s initial mission statement -

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App Store Model vs. Search Engine Model

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Android Deep Linking User Experience

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“Google will be
considering "high
quality" apps to
be a positive
ranking factor in
mobile search.”
-Mariya Moeva (Google
Webmaster Trends Analyst,
SMX West 2015)
Website Parity = Positive Signal for Websites
WebApp

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Google App Indexing:
Android

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Custom URL Scheme
HTTP URL Scheme
Android: Create Intent Filters

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Android: Create Intent Filters
Intent Filters need:
<action>
<data>
android:scheme
android:path
<category>

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Deep Link to previously-
viewed ‘Calafia Café’
screen in the Zagat app
Android App Indexing API

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...
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
static final Uri APP_URI = Uri.parse("android-app://com.example.android.recipes/http/recipe-
app.com/recipes");
static final Uri WEB_URL = Uri.parse("http://recipe-app.com/recipes/");
private GoogleApiClient mClient;
...
}
@Override
public void onStart() {
super.onStart();
...
@Override
public void onStop() {
...
// Call end() and disconnect the client
String title = "App Indexing API Title";
Action viewAction = Action.newAction(Action.TYPE_VIEW, title, WEB_URL, APP_URI);
AppIndex.AppIndexApi.end(mClient, viewAction);
mClient.disconnect();
...
Full code sample here: bit.ly/appindexingAPIcode
Android App Indexing API

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Update App’s Robots.txt:
User-Agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Android App Robots.txt

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Android Custom
Schemes Requirement:
Web Markup

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android-app://com.travel_app/travel_app/travel-app.com/hotels/curtis-hotel-denver
Protocol PackageID Scheme (custom) Host Path
Google’s Android Deep Link Format
Deep Link URL Format:

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Rel=alternate XML Sitemaps Schema
<head>
...
<link rel="alternate" href="android-
app://com.travelapp.android/http/travelapp.com/examplescreen" />
...
</head>
<head>
...
<link rel="alternate" href="android-
app://com.travelapp.android/travelapp/examplescreen" />
<link rel="alternate" href="ios-app://123456/travelapp/examplescreen" />
...
</head>

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Rel=alternate XML Sitemaps Schema
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<url>
<loc>http://travelwebsite.com/examplepage</loc>
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="android-
app://com.travelapp.android/travelapp/examplescreen" />
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="ios-app://123456/travelapp/examplescreen" /></url>
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" href="android-
app://com.travelapp.android/http/travelapp.com/examplescreen" />
...
</urlset>

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Rel=alternate SchemaXML Sitemaps
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "WebPage",
"@id": "http://travelwebsite.com/examplepage",
"potentialAction": {
"@type": "ViewAction",
"target": "android-app://com.travelapp.android/http/travelapp.com/examplescreen"
}
}
</script>

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Verify Website in GP/ Log Into GSC with GP Account

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Google App
Indexing:
iOS

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iOS: Support Universal Links
https://subdomain.domain.com/path/subpath/
Scheme
“http” or “https”
Domain or Host Name Path or Prefix
Anatomy of a Universal Link:

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Requirements:
• A registered domain
• SSL access to your domain
• Ability to upload a JSON file to your
domain

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1 Get Your App Ready
• Modify your application delegate
• Adopt an entitlement in Xcode that
lists each domain associated with your
app
READ:
http://bit.ly/ios9universallinks
http://bit.ly/UIApplicationDelegate-
Reference
WATCH: http://bit.ly/appleuniversallinks

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2 Get Your Server Ready
• Create an apple-app-site-
association file for each associated
domain with the content your app
supports and host it at the root level.
NOTE: The association file must be hosted on
a domain that supports HTTPS/TLS, even if
the HTTP deep links are not themselves
served via HTTPS.
{
"applinks": {
"apps": [],
"details": {
»ABC0123.com.domain.App": {
"paths":[ "*" ]
}
}
}
}

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2 Get Your Server Ready
• Create an apple-app-site-
association file for each associated
domain with the content your app
supports and host it at the root level.
NOTE: The association file must be hosted on
a domain that supports HTTPS/TLS, even if
the HTTP deep links are not themselves
served via HTTPS.
{
"applinks": {
"apps": [],
"details": {
»ABC0123.com.domain.App": {
"paths":[
”/folder/subfolder/”,
”/folder2/subfolder2/*”,
]
}
}
}
}

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iOS: Support Cocoapods

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iOS: Support Cocoapods
1. Use most up-to-date version of CocoaPods
2. Add ‘GoogleAppIndexing’ pod to Podfile
3. Save and Install Pod
4. Import GoogleAppIndexing
1. Register app
pod 'GoogleAppIndexing'
pod install
#import <GoogleAppIndexing/GoogleAppIndexing.h>
[[GSDAppIndexing sharedInstance] registerApp:your iTunes ID];

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Google App Indexing:
Web Markup

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Google Search App Ranking Factors
Positive Ranking Factors:
• App Installation Status
• Proper Technical Implementation
• Website Signals
• APP INDEXING API (extra boost!)
Negative Ranking Factors:
 Content Mismatch/ Back Button
Errors
 Interstitials

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Google Search App Ranking Factors
• Proper Technical Implementation
• Website Signals
• APP INDEXING API (extra boost!)
• Coming soon: Engagement?
 Content Mismatch/ Back Button
Errors
 Interstitials

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Deep Links Without Website Parity
Social MediaApple Search Email & Paid Ads

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Apple Search App
Indexing in iOS 9

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“Apple’s App Store commission is now at a
run-rate of $9 billion, more than its total revenue in the
year the iPod launched.”
- Benedict Evans, @BenedictEvans -

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Apple Search
SPOTLIGHT SAFARISIRI

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High-Engagement
App Screens
Suggested in
‘Siri Suggest’ on
iOS 9 Spotlight
Siri’s Predcitive Search Uses App Indexing

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DEVICE INDEX
(PRIVATE)
CLOUD INDEX
(PUBLIC)
Apple Search Sources from Two Indexes

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Apple Search App Indexing Methods
CoreSpotlight NSUserActivity Web Markup

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Apple Search App
Indexing Option 1:
NSUserActivity

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Core Spotlight NSUserActivity Web Markup
Used for…
Indexing public app screens
that mirror content on the
web
DOES require
corresponding web
content
Add code to WEB
Public Cloud Index
Used for…
Indexing app screens that
contain private/ personal
data
Does NOT require
corresponding web
content
Add code to APP
Private Device Index
Used for…
Indexing private and public
navigation points in the app
Does NOT require
corresponding web
content
Add code to APP
Private Device Index and/
or Public Cloud Index
Private Public

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Private or Public
Public Only
Search results
meta data for
display and rankings
‘Canonical’
More info here: bit.ly/NSUserActivity
NSUserActivty

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CoreSpotlight NSUserActivity Web MarkupNSUserActivity
with var eligibleForSearch with var eligibleForPublicIndexing
Private/
Device Index
Public/ Cloud
Index
PRIVATE APP SCREEN PUBLIC APP SCREEN

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Apple Search App
Indexing Option 2:
Core Spotlight

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Search results
meta data for
display and rankings
More info here: bit.ly/corespotlight
Core Spotlight

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Apple Search App
Indexing Option 3:
Web Markup

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Web Markup – Provide URLs to Apple

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Twitter Cards AppLinks
Smart App
Banners
Web Markup

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Web Markup – Meta Data (Schema &
Open Graph)

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bit.ly/applesearchvalidator
Test URLs for Web Markup

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Apple Search App Ranking Factors
• Personalized App Engagement
• App Result Click-Through Rate
• Keywords/ Title
• Aggregated Engagement
• Structured Data on Web
• Canonical App IDs
• Strength/Popularity of Web URL
 Low Engagement
 Over-Indexing
 Returns
 Keywords Spamming
 Interstitials
 JavaScript blocking Applebot (web only)

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Deep Linking in
Email & Social
Media

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Deep Link Redirectors in Email and Social Media

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