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These guidelines will help you\u00a0to understand how\u00a0mobile app will be crawled by Google and will allow users to access your app directly from search results. Indexing mobile apps in Google search can be achieved with these superb tips.
Support HTTP deep links in your app by\u00a0adding intent filters to your manifest<\/em><\/a>.
Use web URLs (HTTP) for app views wherever possible
Associate your app to your site\u00a0in Google Search Console.
(Add your app as a new property to Search Console by clicking\u00a0Add a property<\/strong>\u00a0on the\u00a0Search Console home page<\/a>. Use\u00a0the syntax\u00a0android-app:\/\/{package-name}\/<\/code>. \u00a0\u00a0Source<\/strong><\/a>)
Implement app indexing using the\u00a0App Indexing API<\/a>
Mapping your webpages to your app with on-page markup or sitemaps
You can do this mapping either in the head of the individual page using a link element, using schema.org markup (for Android only), or in an XML sitemap.
How to reference your app links
<link\u00a0rel=\u201dalternate\u201d\u00a0href=\u201dandroid-app:\/\/com.gizmos.android\/http\/gizmos.com\/example\u201d \/><\/em>
<link\u00a0rel=\u201dalternate\u201d\u00a0href=\u201dios-app:\/\/123456\/http\/gizmos\/example\u201d\u00a0\/><\/em>
Write Schema.org markup for apps screen pages
Example Microdata & Rich Snippet for Android App \u2013
<\/a>
<\/a>
Add your app deep links to your XML sitemap
\u00a0 Use the\u00a0<xhtml:link><\/code>\u00a0tag in your sitemap and specify the deep link as an alternate URI.
<\/a>
Allow Google to crawl app URLs through robot.txt

<\/a><\/a><\/a>App URL Crawling
You can also make your app content searchable on Google by\u00a0enabling deep links in the mobile app<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These guidelines will help you\u00a0to understand how\u00a0mobile app will be crawled by Google and will allow users to access your app directly from search results. Indexing mobile apps in Google search can be achieved with these superb tips.Support HTTP deep links in your app by\u00a0adding intent filters to your manifest.Use web URLs (HTTP) for app […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smowdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smowdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smowdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smowdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smowdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smowdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smowdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smowdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smowdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smowdigital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}