1 page.title=Making Your App Content Searchable by Google 2 page.tags="app indexing" 3 4 trainingnavtop=true 5 startpage=true 6 7 @jd:body 8 9 <div id="tb-wrapper"> 10 <div id="tb"> 11 12 <h2>Dependencies and prerequisites</h2> 13 <ul> 14 <li>Android 2.3 (API level 9) and higher</li> 15 </ul> 16 17 <h2>You Should Also Read</h2> 18 <ul> 19 <li><a href="http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-power-of-search-now-across-apps.html" class="external-link" target="_blank">The power of Search, now across apps (blog post)</a></li> 20 <li><a href="https://developers.google.com/app-indexing/" class="external-link" 21 target="_blank">App Indexing for Google Search</a></li> 22 <li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/components/intents-filters.html">Intents and Intent 23 Filters</a></li> 24 </ul> 25 </div> 26 </div> 27 <a class="notice-developers-video wide" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aISUYHTkTOU"> 28 <div> 29 <h3>Video</h3> 30 <p>DevBytes: App Indexing</p> 31 </div> 32 </a> 33 34 <p>As mobile apps become more pervasive, users are looking for relevant 35 information not only from web sites but also from apps they have installed. 36 You can enable Google to crawl through your app content and present your 37 Android app as a destination to users through Google Search results, when 38 that content corresponds to a web page that you own.</p> 39 40 <p>You can make it possible for Google Search to open specific content in your 41 app by providing intent filters for your activities. Google Search 42 app indexing complements this capability by presenting links to relevant app 43 content alongside links to your web pages in users' search results. Users on 44 mobile devices can then click on a link to open your app from their search 45 results, allowing them to directly view your app's content instead of a 46 web page.</p> 47 48 <p>To enable Google Search app indexing, you need to provide Google with 49 information about the relationship between your app and web site. This process 50 involves the following steps:</p> 51 <ol> 52 <li>Enable deep linking to specific content 53 in your app by adding intent filters in your app manifest.</li> 54 <li>Annotate these links in the associated web pages on your web site or in a 55 Sitemap file.</li> 56 <li>Opt in to allow Googlebot to crawl through your APK in the Google Play store 57 to index your app content. You are automatically opted-in when you join as 58 a participant in the early adopter program. 59 </li> 60 </ol> 61 62 <p>This class shows how to enable deep linking and indexing of your application 63 content so that users can open this content directly from mobile search 64 results.</p> 65 66 <h2>Lessons</h2> 67 68 <!-- Create a list of the lessons in this class along with a short description of each lesson. 69 These should be short and to the point. It should be clear from reading the summary whether someone 70 will want to jump to a lesson or not.--> 71 72 <dl> 73 <dt><b><a href="deep-linking.html">Enabling Deep Links for App 74 Content</a></b></dt> 75 <dd>Shows how to add intent filters to enable deep linking to app 76 content.</dd> 77 <dt><b><a href="enabling-app-indexing.html">Specifying App Content for 78 Indexing</a></b></dt> 79 <dd>Shows how to annotate web site metadata to allow Google's algorithms to index 80 app content.</dd> 81 </dl> 82
