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Hi,

We are currently in the process of getting our app developed. From an SEO point of view I want the app to get indexed and am currently trying to get a step by step guide for it.

I've come across this helpful guide: https://moz.com/blog/how-to-get-your-app-content-indexed-by-google but need to go a bit deeper now.

Questions I have is related to the "apple-app-site-association" file

As far as I could find out the JSON code of that file has the following syntax:

{_    “applinks”: {__        “apps”: [],__        “details”: [__            {__                “appID”: “9JA89QQLNQ.com.my.bundle.id“,__                “paths”: [ “/myPath1”, “/myPath2/*” ]__            },__        ]__    }_

}

My question is related to the key "appID"

I'm wondering how the entry would look like if I have 10 country subdomains and would like to make sure  that the deep link clicked in the browser is going to the right subdomain page within the app.

Current website structure:
uk.example.com/english-path/
de.example.com/german-path/

Many Thanks in advance

Hi Dan,

Yes, the URL would change in both cases (AJAX request as well as for a complete refresh).

Thanks

Hi Dan,

Although it doesn't address the specific question I had I think your link is a good start for me to dig into the topic in more detail.

Many Thanks,

Hi,

I got a question in regard to webpages being served via AJAX request as I couldn't find a definitive answer in regard to an issue we currently face:

When visitors on our site select a facet on a Listing Page, the site doesn't fully reload. As a consequence only certain tags of the content (H1, description,..) are updated, while other tags like canonical URLs, meta noindex,nofollow tag, or the title tag are not updating as long as you don't refresh the page.

We have no information about how this will be crawled and indexed yet but I was wondering if anyone of you knows, how this will impact SEO?

We have the same issue however we have image XML sitemaps on each country subdomain's XML Index which point to the image files on images.domain.com.

Example:

https://uk.domain.com/image-sitemap1.xml

https://us.domain.com/image-sitemap1.xml

These 2 files are the same.

We also don't have a homepage on images.domain.com and it currently responds with a 404.

Do you think we need to create a landing page on the homepage and host the image XML sitemap at https://images.domain.com/images-sitemap1.xml rather than in each sub-domain?

Thanks.

What are your thoughts around using OnScroll() function because it seems the search engines don't crawl this function easily and therefore uploading the content in that way might be safer.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/infinite-scroll-search-friendly.html

Hi,

We are considering the impact when you want to deliver content directly on the product pages. If the products were manufactured in a specific way and its the same process across 100 other products you might want to tell your readers about it. If you were to believe the product page was the best place to deliver this information for your readers then you could potentially be creating mass content duplication. Especially as the storytelling of the product could equate to 60% of the page content this could really flag as duplication.

Our options would appear to be:1. Instead add the content as a link on each product page to one centralised URL and risk taking users away from the product page (not going to help with conversion rate or designers plans)2. Put the content behind some javascript which requires interaction hopefully deterring the search engine from crawling the content (doesn't fit the designers plans & users have to interact which is a big ask)3. Assign one product as a canonical and risk the other products not appearing in search for relevant searches4. Leave the copy as crawlable and risk being marked down or de-indexed for duplicated contentIts seems the search engines do not offer a way for us to serve this great content to our readers with out being at risk of going against guidelines or the search engines not being able to crawl it.How would you suggest a site should go about this for optimal results?

Hi,

Does anyone have a list of (major) Search Engines that subscribe to the Ajax Crawling Scheme? (https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/)

Specifically interested in major international Search Engines such as Bing/Yahoo, Baidu & Yandex - if anyone knows, please let me know!

Thanks in advance

Thank you Chiaryn, I will post on the Feature Request section

Thanks again

Dean

As we've been fixing errors on our website, the crawl diagnostic graphs have been showing great results (top left to bottom right for errors).

The problem is the graphs themselves aren't very pretty. I can't use them in my internal reports (all internal reports are standardised colours/formats).

Is there anyway of exporting the top level summary with historic data so the graphs can be recreated in company colours? I don't want the detailed CSV breakdown of what errors occurred, but rather than on X date there were Y errors, the next month Z errors and so forth.

The data must already be in the SEOMoz system in order to create the graphs themselves - I was hoping this can be made available to us if it isn't already?

Does anyone know if there is already a way of doing this? I've tried to 'inspect element' and find the underlying data in the source code but to no avail, and can't see any exports that would do this.

Thanks in advance

Dean

Hi,

We are considering the impact when you want to deliver content directly on the product pages. If the products were manufactured in a specific way and its the same process across 100 other products you might want to tell your readers about it. If you were to believe the product page was the best place to deliver this information for your readers then you could potentially be creating mass content duplication. Especially as the storytelling of the product could equate to 60% of the page content this could really flag as duplication.

Our options would appear to be:1. Instead add the content as a link on each product page to one centralised URL and risk taking users away from the product page (not going to help with conversion rate or designers plans)2. Put the content behind some javascript which requires interaction hopefully deterring the search engine from crawling the content (doesn't fit the designers plans & users have to interact which is a big ask)3. Assign one product as a canonical and risk the other products not appearing in search for relevant searches4. Leave the copy as crawlable and risk being marked down or de-indexed for duplicated contentIts seems the search engines do not offer a way for us to serve this great content to our readers with out being at risk of going against guidelines or the search engines not being able to crawl it.How would you suggest a site should go about this for optimal results?

solved via GWT thread: https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/WlUzNLFQB54/discussion

Hi,

If you look at SEOmoz's Blog pages, you'll see they have added the G+ rel="publisher" code.

On http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1708844 Google says:

"A rel="publisher" link from the main page of your website to your Google+ page."

Is there any benefit to putting this code into the sites template (adding it to every page of the site) when it could be added to just the homepage?

Not a criticism, just curious to know how I should implement the code on my own site (concerned that adding it to the site template is a kind-of link out on every page of my site)

Cheers

FashionLux

Hi,

Our products are listed in multiple categories, and as the URLs are path dependent (example.com/fruit/apples/granny-smith/, example.com/fruit/green-fruit/granny-smith/ and so forth) we canonicalise to the 'default' URL (in this case example.com/fruit/apples/granny-smith/).

For mainly crawling bandwidth issues I'm looking to change all product URL's to path neutral so there is only ever one URL per product (example.com/granny-smith/), but still list the product in multiple categories.

If a user comes directly to example.com/granny-smith/ then the breadcrumbs will use the default path "Fruit > Apples", however if the user navigated to the product via another category then I'd like the breadcrumbs to reflect this. I'm not worried about cloaking as it's not based on user-agent and it's very logical why it's being done so I don't expect a penalty.

My question is - how do you recommend this is achieved from a technical standpoint? Many sites use path neutral product URL's (Ikea, PCWorld etc) but none alter the breadcrumbs depending upon path.

Our site is mostly behind a CDN so it has to be a client side solution. I currently view the options as:

• Store Path to product in a cookie and/or browsers local-cache
• Attach the Path details after a # in the URL and use Javascript to alter breadcrumbs onload with JQuery
• When a user clicks to a product from a listing page, use AJAX to pull in the product info but leave the rest of the page (including the breadcrumbs) as-is, updating the URL accordingly

Do you think any of these wouldn't work? Do you have a preference on which one is best? Is there another method you'd recommend?

We also have "Next/Previous" functionality (links to the previous and next product URLs) on the page so I suspect we'd need to attach the path after a # and make another round trip to the server onload to update the previous and next links.

Finally, does anyone know of any sites that do update the breadcrumbs depending upon path?

Thanks in advance for your time

FashionLux

Hi Dan,

Although it doesn't address the specific question I had I think your link is a good start for me to dig into the topic in more detail.

Many Thanks,