Danger Social Networking Apps for Kids !

Danger Social Networking Apps for Kids !

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Teenagers and underage children remain exposed to the social media vulnerabilities for long hours day after day. A recent study found that kids spend more than nine hours a day sticking to social networking sites. A family of social media apps does not just require your kids to convey their personal information to use these apps but also entice them to give up more and more with each passing day. Whatever they post on these sites is either being monitored by the social apps itself or the online predators. A number of cases have been reported worldwide of predators meeting children online, befriend them, and exploiting them in horrifying ways.

Dangerous Social Networking Apps for Kids 

• Snapchat

Snapchat is a social networking application allowing users to send and share photos and videos applying filters and lenses to enhance the charm. The photos sharing app is widely being used for sexting and sending porn and inappropriate images because of its self-deletion feature. When you send a picture to someone, it automatically gets deleted 10 seconds after being viewed. However, it does not truly disappear from the internet and can be screen captured to get it stored and dispersed afterward. There are numerous websites that specifically post porn photos and screenshots stolen from the Snapchat, and one of its examples is Sanpper Party.

• Instagram

This second most popular social media app allows users to share photos applying filters to their images, creating collages, and employ a variety of enhancements. Though Instagram is recognized as a safer platform as compared to the other photo sharing apps, it hosts a lot of inappropriate and adult material. The app is rated 13+ but a vast majority of its users are underage because of poor age verification process.

• Tinder

Tinder is a leading dating, hookup and one-night-stand app that uses users’ geo location to introduce them to people in nearby areas. This 13+ rated app fails to provide the users with reliable age verification process and ways to confirm the authenticity of those they meet online. The app puts the kid users in dangers of cat fishing, cyber-bullying, and child predation. 

• Kik Messenger

Kik is an instant messaging application that goes beyond simple texting. It allows one-on-one and group chat with the users outside the phone contact list. The app is intended for 17+ but the absence of age verification makes it easier for anyone to sign up. The app is being used for dating and hookup and has been linked to cyber bullying, sexting, and catfishing.

• Vine

Vine is another most-liked social media app combining features of SnapChat, YouTube and messaging. This app allows users to create 6-second or shorter videos and upload them to the Vine websites. These videos range from the simple and harmless to exposing violence and pornography. Though the app is intended for 17+ users a majority of underage users are using Vine to download racy videos and find inappropriate content with simple keyword searches.    

• Conclusion - How to Monitor Your Kids

There are scores of other social networking apps affecting a majority of underage and young users in horrific ways. Do not allow your kids to use a social media application that you do not consider safe for them, or if your kid is using any of them the best option can be to monitor their use. You can take help from Social Media and instant messenger monitoring app such as TheOneSpy to keep tabs on the activities of your kids on social networking, dating, and instant messaging apps to protect them from the scoundrels in the digital world. 

Author. Erwin Widianto

This Is Why Jawbone UP3 Gadget Is So Famous!

This Is Why Jawbone UP3 Gadget Is So Famous!

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Jawbone UP3 be the Next Generation of Jawbone UP24 + Heart Rate sensor. Jawbone UP3 don’t have features like NFC for payments integrated with American Express or Amex. These features having in Jawbone UP4, which is the next generation of Jawbone UP3. Jawbone UP3 was introduced in 2014. At the end of his introduction Jawbone says that will UP3 Full best waterproof fitness tracker but the fact is not so, and Jawbone UP3 only Splash Prove, Rain Prove. Imagine having a personal trainer 24/7, tracking your heart rate throughout the day and sleeping better. That’s what our UP3 band with its great style and 2015’s best fitness app can do for you.

Design Jawbone UP3

Just like its predecessor, the Jawbone UP, Jawbone UP24. Jawbone up2, Jawbone and Jawbone UP3 UP4 designed by famous designer “Yves Behar”. As a result, Jawbone UP3 design very styles, Fashionable and comfortable to wear.  Jawbone UP3 comes in various colors.

Jawbone UP3 Feature                                                                 

Activity Tracker

This is the one I use the most. As long as the band is on your wrist you will see your steps keep increasing throughout the day. You can also add a workout to specify if you went for a run, lifted weights, did yoga, etc. It’s very easy to use. For those that use other apps like Run Keeper (which I do), the UP app has a section where you can sync your info from other fitness apps so there is no need to enter info in several places.

 Food Logging

This is the part of the app that lets you put in everything you have consumed for the day. The app allows you to enter via three different methods. The first is scan. Basically if the item you are consuming has a barcode you just scan it and the nutritional values auto populate.

The second is search. All you do there is type in what you ate/drank and it will search thru the database which appears to be preloaded on the app. If you are eating at a chain restaurant, most items are in there. Otherwise you can just find something close to what you ate. Or the last way is to snap a picture of what you ate and manually type in the nutritional values. Like the activity tracker if you use a different food logging app the UP app does sync to some of them so you don’t have to input info in 2 places

Sleep Mode

 This by far was probably the coolest feature so far on the UP3. Right as you go to bed, you throw your band in sleep mode and leave it there until you wake up. Once I wake up I put it back in active mode. After that time my app updates to give me a handful of sleep information. It tells you how long it took you to fall asleep, how long you were in deep sleep, light sleep, REM sleep, and if you woke up during the night. It is pretty neat to track this. Information I have never seen on myself. It also gives you your resting heart rate reading.

Smart Coach

This feature needs a few days worth of info to really start working. The more information you enter in the first three features, the more useful the smart coach is. Basically each day my smart coach will give you tips on stretching, things to eat to get more REM sleep (if it is low like mine), give you daily step challenges based on previous averages, and tell you things to avoid eating based off your eating patterns. The smart coach will also provide links to exercises to better challenge you. Like I said I have only had the UP for about a week so I have just recently began to see the smart coach provide more specific advice for me specifically. The first couple day was a generic but now that I have input a bunch of info I am getting much more out of the smart coach.

The best feature of the UP3 is the way it easily tracks your sleep. It’s very simple to turn it over to sleep monitoring mode. In the morning it categorizes your sleep into deep, light and REM. It records your total sleep time and it does this everyday so you can get an idea of your overall sleep patterns. If you have any issues with getting adequate sleep, etc. this is a great way to start understanding that part of you.

Jawbone UP3 Pros and Cons

PROS

Jawbone UP3It looks really cool. If you’re going to wear something all day, every day, this is more important than it might sound. It’s sleeker-looking than the watch-shaped Up Move and far more handsome than the FitBit, in my personal opinion. I wish I’d bought the silver so it would blend in nicely with my jewelry.

It tells you how much of your sleep is spent in a REM state.

The step tracking is far more accurate than your phone. After all, you likely don’t always have your phone in your pocket or purse for every step you take 24 hours a day. So it’s more accurate and more convenient.

It tells you your resting heart rate, and graphs it over time. It also explains why you should care.

The companion Up App is FANTASTIC. The Smart Coach provides better tips and motivates me better than all my other Fitness apps. (But it’s no different from the version for the Up Move, other than the added REM sleep and heart rate data points.) It’s also the most visually pleasing of all my fitness apps, and is easiest for at-a-glance info.

It plays well with others. You can sync with partners like the iPhone Health screen, the Withings scale, MyFitnessPal, UnderArmour’s fitness logging apps, MapMyRun and the like. They all share their data back and forth really seamlessly. Love this. Use it constantly. Appreciate it constantly.

It gives you a noticeable vibration when an alarm/alert you scheduled goes off, or if you’ve been sitting still for more than a specific amount of time. All of which you can customize to your personal preference in the app. I worried that the vibration would annoy me, but happily, it doesn’t. And it’s a physical reminder to check in and stay engaged with my fitness trackers throughout the day. An alert popping up on a phone buried in my handbag wouldn’t be as effective. I dig this.

If you forget to put it in sleep mode at bedtime, it will recover that data. You can go back and log past sleep, and it will go back through the data on heart rate and movement during that period, and estimate pretty accurately all those sleep stats. This is a big improvement over the Up Move.

CONS

• Lack of LED display (it only has lights)
• The latching system on the band is a little cumbersome, especially at first.
• Lack of “getting started” instructions in the box.
• Heart rate monitor is currently not designed to for target heart rates during workouts
• Doesn’t appear to count stairs like Fitbit trackers.
• not waterproof

Md. Nurul Islam(pasha)
Content Developer
Digital IT Solution

Website - http://ithealthfitness.com/

Author. Erwin Widianto

Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API

Making the Internet safer and faster: Introducing reCAPTCHA Android API

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When we launched reCAPTCHA ten years ago, we had a simple goal: enable users to visit the sites they love without worrying about spam and abuse. Over the years, reCAPTCHA has changed quite a bit. It evolved from the distorted text to street numbers and names, then No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA in 2014 and Invisible reCAPTCHA in March this year.

By now, more than a billion users have benefited from reCAPTCHA and we continue to work to refine our protections.

reCAPTCHA protects users wherever they may be online. As the use of mobile devices has grown rapidly, it’s important to keep the mobile applications and data safe. Today, on reCAPTCHA’s tenth birthday, we’re glad to announce the first reCAPTCHA Android API as part of Google Play Services.

With this API, reCAPTCHA can better tell human and bots apart to provide a streamlined user experience on mobile. It will use our newest Invisible reCAPTCHA technology, which runs risk analysis behind the scene and has enabled millions of human users to pass through with zero click everyday. Now mobile users can enjoy their apps without being interrupted, while still staying away from spam and abuse.

reCAPTCHA Android API is included with Google SafetyNet, which provides services like device attestation and safe browsing to protect mobile apps. Mobile developers can do both the device and user attestations in the same API to mitigate security risks of their apps more efficiently. This adds to the diversity of security protections on Android: Google Play Protect to monitor for potentially harmful applications, device encryption, and regular security updates. Please visit our site to learn more about how to integrate with the reCAPTCHA Android API, and keep an eye out for our iOS library.

The journey of reCAPTCHA continues: we’ll make the Internet safer and easier to use for everyone (except bots).

Posted by Wei Liu, Product Manager, reCAPTCHA

Author. Erwin Widianto

10 Best Productivity Apps to Manage your Time Wisely!

10 Best Productivity Apps to Manage your Time Wisely!

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Technology is the new onslaught among the young generations, who believe in speed and efficiency. There are several Android apps that provides assistance to all the busy professionals, creative geeks and the record breakers. These productivity Android apps are easy to use and performs all your undue works efficiently. The below apps are filled with latest features and work to minimize your workload. With the right app on your device, you get the luxury to spend time with other important works.

I believe all of you are anxious to know about the various productivity apps which may manage your time and increase your performance. Let’s move down to know the best productivity apps which renders smart work.

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10 Best Productivity App for Android User

Fasten your seats guys, as we go on a roller coaster ride in a world full of speedy apps with would enhance your working experience. We have brought to you the best productivity apps for every Android user. All the below listed  apps are free that renders smooth, trouble-free and less time consuming experience.

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#1. To Do List

The planning and systematic organizing of all your daily work is taken care by To-Do-List app. The app is very useful to remember all your undue work. It allows quick and user friendly as the features are minimum. To-do-list requires no user, account or internet connection. The user may take very less time to prepare his list and the app makes sure you don’t forget any important work.

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#2. Evernote

Evernote app is the perfect app for everyone of us. This is useful to organize your work in a better way. You may take notes in various formats like sketches, photos, audio, video, PDF, presentation, web clippings. For the creative people,  jot down all your thoughts in the notepad. The app also enables to organize your receipts, bills, invoice. This is a take away app for all working people who travel a lot. It’s a multi purpose app which helps you to be systematic and optimum

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#3. Google Keep

We have another option for you to create notes, to do lists, . The Google Keep app has an additional feature of reminding you to keep a list of your place and time you want to visit. You may also add collaboration and even syn the app. The user can also make his work more colorful by highlighting the desired photo for easily visuality. To download the app, move down.

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#4. Microsoft Outlook

The Microsoft Outlook app can easily connect your email account, calendar, files everything at one place. The features include important messages at the top, easily swipe gestures, and crafty filters. Dates mentioned in your inbox can be easily marked on your calendar. The user can have quick access to Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Business handling can be easy and perfectly planned.

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#5. Unclouded

The phone easily gets filled with junk files, to clear all the unwanted files holding your phone storage download Unclouded app. This app supports Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive, Box and Mega. So not to worry when you are blessed with a junk remover! The App helps the user by informing about the files occupying  most space, detects duplicates and helps to know how much space is occupied by photos, videos etc. This app can also be used offline, once you sync the file. Start downloading!

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#6. Swift Key Keyboard

The Swift Key Keyboard app is commonly viewed in every smartphone. These third party keyboards are owned by  Microsoft. The keyboard has smart keys which provide effortless typing which renders long chats or emails. They offer features like gesture typing, multiple language support, cross-device syncing. This app is available for free and is customized with many easy to use features.

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#7. Next Lock Screen

The Next Lock Screen  app is the best app to avoid unwanted access by others.This app protects your phone with PIN code,password, pattern, thus providing security and safety to your device. It secures your phone from external access and is simple to use.  The app acquires simple features like missed call, messages and app notifications, automatic weather updates, reminds of upcoming events and also keeps a track of your favorite songs on screen. This app makes work easy and efficient.   

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#8. LastPass Password

Nowadays, people have many accounts and different passwords with it. Forgetting it is normal. For this, LastPass Password app is the best. It secures your passwords and personal data. The user just needs to remember one password which is the LastPass Master Password that handles all your important information. Simple Download the app, mention your gmail account and become free from remembering passwords. The user can also secure his credit card information, photos and other confidential documents. It is one of the best apps and a must for everyone!

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#9. Instapaper

Instapaper is an obvious app for the avid readers. The user can save and store articles found interesting on the Internet. The app can download about 500 articles, so that he can read whenever time permits. These downloaded articles consist of adjustable fonts, line spacing, margins and can even control brightness for an enjoyable reading experience. They facilitate with Dictionary and Wikipedia for easy reference. Look for yourself! Download the app!

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#10. Airdroid

Imagine it’s a busy Monday, you have tonnes of work lined up for the day. Looking at your phone for some important message becomes annoying every time. To make the work simple, download the Airdoid app and control your smartphone or tablet through the computer. Enjoy the experience of operating your phone through the big windows screen.

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Wrapping Up!

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 If anyone asks me, about my favorite app, I would prefer having almost all of the above apps. With the clock constantly ticking and hectic schedules, we all tend to forget things. A wise decision would be to have apps like Evernote, To-Do-List app to impress my boss and finishing my deadlines on time. It’s time to experience these productivity Android apps that are  coherent and less time consuming. Start using these productivity now!

Authored By: Sejal Parmar

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Which is Your Favourite App ? Leave Your Word in the Comments

Author. Erwin Widianto

The Best Free Android Apps Of 2017

The Best Free Android Apps Of 2017

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Technology is the logical aspect of all digital inventions that make life easy and effortless. Technology is omnipresent. It is found everywhere from houses, malls, offices and even in the toilets.Yaa! Technology has found itself everywhere in Human’s life. Man cannot survive without technology and has got addicted to it. Technology is something that is the talk of the town with people wanting to have the latest apps or games. Lets have the list of best Android Apps and games of the year 2017.

5 best Android apps of 2017 for Android:

These are the best five android applications for your device. These apps are free.. free.. free! Find an app according to your convenience. But to get the best apps. Read the below article.

#1 Blue Mail

Rank: 4.5/5

For all the frequent email users. Experience the new email app ‘Blue Mail’. It is one of the best email app and the latest one if you have got bored up with the Gmail. It systematically organizes all your mails making your work easier. The Blue Mail enables smart settings along with android wear support, locking  private mails, color coding etc. The app works smartly according to the user . The app is absolutely free ! Download now….

#2 Google Drive Suite 

Rank: 4.5/5

The Google Drive suite comes  free with purchase of Google Drive Suite.Once you download the app and get a sweet treat of 15GB free upon signing. It comes with handy office apps like Goggle docs,Sheets, Slides, photos, Gmail, calendar and Google keep. All the related office works can be done on your mobile phones or tablet. It user also gets unlimited photos  and video backup, live collaboration and many sharing features  to connect with your friends. Quickly download latest android app and impress your boss!

#3 Google play music

Rank:  4/5

This app is best for all music lovers. Google play supports both the user’s playlists and online music.Be free to download all your best songs online, make your playlists larger and larger. Once the user subscribes the Google play music, he /she gets lucky by getting the Youtube red app.This new Youtube removes all ads, giving ad free videos. This is a thumbs up app for all hardcore musicians!

Wunderlist

Rank: 4.5/5

This is the app for all the adventurous people and for the dedicated working class people. This app helps to make a list of all your ideas or to-do list or things to do, personal  wish list to discover a place. The app can be accessed from your phone, tablet. Feel free to share your list with your peers or employees. Make your list more exciting by attaching photos, PDF’s, presentation making it easier for people to understand it better.The best part of the app is the ‘Reminder’ part, set a remainder so that you don’t forget your work amidst a busy schedule. Get the app for free and use it from anywhere and everywhere!

#4 Last pass Password Manager

Rank: 4.5/5

This app is a password manager and password generator which provides privatization to all your personal accounts. It secures your password so that you don’t write it every time you login. The last pass master password handles all your accounts even if you forget it. The other features include storing passwords, logins, create online shopping profiles, general strong password, track personal information in photo and audio note which is applicable to  all devices. Privatize your account by clicking on https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lastpass.lpandroid&hl=en

Best apps for every user

These applications are user friendly and are simple yet powerful. These are the 2.0 version of their older apps that symbolizes the rage of technology in the 21^st century among people. Everyone wants to stay up-to-date with all the latest technology which helps them to reduce time and effort. These android apps are easy and simple to use. So why waste time with the older versions, update your phone and experience the advanced versions of technology 2.0!

For more such application, simply go to google play by clicking on the below link: https://play.google.com/store?hl=en.

Author By: Sejal Parmar

Author. Erwin Widianto

How To Use Multiple Accounts In One Android Phones

How To Use Multiple Accounts In One Android Phones

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Daily,we need to manage different account in one mobile and we sign out and sign in to manage it but it quite difficult to do.

Here is a solution for manage two account using one mobile phones.
Follow these steps - 

1)Download an app called parallel space multi accounts

Parallel Space Multi Accounts

2)After downloading install it and open it.

3)Open and click (+) button and select the program which you want to be double account.

4)After selecting app hold and drag the icon and create shortcut.

5)After creating shortcut you get rid of sign in and sign out.

6)On the main screen you will see a program name with (+) sign and click to access.

7)Open the new created icon and get started today.

Special Notes- This app is really good and its trending at google play.

Also Read - How To Identify Fake Apps On Google Play

About This App - This app is really good it generally create a different platform within one android and it create shortcut that make it more easier.

This app got 4 Star Out Of 5 

Author. Erwin Widianto

Google+: A case study on App Download Interstitials

Google+: A case study on App Download Interstitials

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Many mobile sites use promotional app interstitials to encourage users to download their native mobile apps. For some apps, native can provide richer user experiences, and use features of the device that are currently not easy to access on a browser. Because of this, many app owners believe that they should encourage users to install the native version of their online property or service. It’s not clear how aggressively to promote the apps, and a full page interstitial can interrupt the user from reaching their desired content.

On Google+ mobile web, we decided to take a closer look at our own use of interstitials. Internal user experience studies identified them as poor experiences, and Jennifer Gove gave a great talk at IO last year which highlights this user frustration.

Despite our intuition that we should remove the interstitial, we prefer to let data guide our decisions, so we set out to learn how the interstitial affected our users. Our analysis found that:

• 9% of the visits to our interstitial page resulted in the ‘Get App’ button being pressed. (Note that some percentage of these users already have the app installed or may never follow through with the app store download.)
• 69% of the visits abandoned our page. These users neither went to the app store nor continued to our mobile website.

While 9% sounds like a great CTR for any campaign, we were much more focused on the number of users who had abandoned our product due to the friction in their experience. With this data in hand, in July 2014, we decided to run an experiment and see how removing the interstitial would affect actual product usage. We added a Smart App Banner to continue promoting the native app in a less intrusive way, as recommended in the Avoid common mistakes section of our Mobile SEO Guide. The results were surprising:

• 1-day active users on our mobile website increased by 17%.
• G+ iOS native app installs were mostly unaffected (-2%). (We’re not reporting install numbers from Android devices since most come with Google+ installed.)

Based on these results, we decided to permanently retire the interstitial. We believe that the increase in users on our product makes this a net positive change, and we are sharing this with the hope that you will reconsider the use of promotional interstitials. Let’s remove friction and make the mobile web more useful and usable!

(Since this study, we launched a better mobile web experience that is currently without an app banner. The banner can still be seen on iOS 6 and below.)

Posted by David Morell, Software Engineer, Google+

Author. Erwin Widianto

Rolling out the red carpet for app owners in Search Console

Rolling out the red carpet for app owners in Search Console

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Wouldn’t it be nifty if you could track where your indexed app content shows up in search results, for which queries, which app pages are most popular, and which ones have errors? Yeah, we thought so too! So we’ve equipped our freshly renamed Search Console with new reports to show you how Google understands and treats your app content in search results.
Our goal is to make Search Console a comprehensive source of information for everyone who cares about search, regardless of the format of their content. So, if you own or develop an app, Search Console is your new go-to place for search stats.

Add your app to Search Console

Simply open Search Console and enter your app name: android-app://com.example. Of course, we’ll only show data to authorized app owners, so you need to use your Google Play account to let Search Console know you have access to the app. If you don’t have access to your app in Google Play, ask an owner to verify the app in Search Console and add you next.

Connect your site to your app

Associating your site with your app is necessary for App Indexing to work. Plus, it helps with understanding and ranking the app content better.

Track your app content’s performance in search

The new Search Analytics report provides detailed information on top queries, top app pages, and traffic by country. It also has a comprehensive set of filters, allowing you to narrow down to a specific query type or region, or sort by clicks, impressions, CTR, and positions.

Use the Search Analytics report to compare which app content you consider most important with the content that actually shows up in search and gets the most clicks. If they match, you’re on the right track! Your users are finding and liking what you want them to see. If there’s little overlap, you may need to restructure your navigation, or make the most important content easier to find. Also worth checking in this case: have you provided deep links to all the app content you want your users to find?

Make sure Google understands your app content

If we encounter errors while indexing your app content, we won’t be able to show deep links for those app pages in search results. The Crawl Errors report will show you the type and number of errors we’ve detected.

See your app content the way Google sees it

We’ve created an alpha version of the Fetch as Google tool for apps to help you check if an app URI works and see how Google renders it. It can also be useful for comparing the app content with the webpage content to debug errors such as content mismatch. In many cases, the mismatch errors are caused by blocked resources within the app or by pop-ups asking users to sign in or register. Now you can see and resolve these issues.

To get started on optimizing and troubleshooting your own app, add it to Search Console now. If you want to know more about App Indexing, read about it on our Developer Site. And, as always, you’re welcome to drop by the help forum with more questions.

Posted by:
Hillel Maoz, Engineering Lead, Search Console Team (favorite app: Flipboard) and
Mariya Moeva, Webmaster Trends Analyst (favorite app: Spotify)

Author. Erwin Widianto

The four steps to appiness

The four steps to appiness

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Webmaster Level: intermediate to advanced

App deep links are the new kid on the block in organic search, and they’re picking up speed faster than you can say “schema.org ViewAction”! For signed-in users, 15% of Google searches on Android now return deep links to apps through App Indexing. And over just the past quarter, we've seen the number of clicks on app deep links jump by 10x.

We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from developers and seen a lot of implementations gone right and others that were good learning experiences since we opened up App Indexing back in June. We’d like to share with you four key steps to monitor app performance and drive user engagement:

1. Give your app developer access to Webmaster Tools

App indexing is a team effort between you (as a webmaster) and your app development team. We show information in Webmaster Tools that is key for your app developers to do their job well. Here’s what’s available right now:

• Errors in indexed pages within apps
• Weekly clicks and impressions from app deep link via Google search
• Stats on your sitemap (if that’s how you implemented the app deep links)

...and we plan to add a lot more in the coming months!

We’ve noticed that very few developers have access to Webmaster Tools. So if you want your app development team to get all of the information they need to fix app-related issues, it’s essential for them to have access to Webmaster Tools.

Any verified site owner can add a new user. Pick restricted or full permissions, depending on the level of access you’d like to give:

2. Understand how your app is doing in search results

How are users engaging with your app from search results? We’ve introduced two new ways for you to track performance for your app deep links:

• We now send a weekly clicks and impressions update to the Message center in your Webmaster Tools account.
• You can now track how much traffic app deep links drive to your app using referrer information - specifically, the referrer extra in the ACTION_VIEW intent. We're working to integrate this information with Google Analytics for even easier access. Learn how to track referrer information on our Developer site.

3. Make sure key app resources can be crawled

Blocked resources are one of the top reasons for the “content mismatch” errors you see in Webmaster Tools’ Crawl Errors report. We need access to all the resources necessary to render your app page. This allows us to assess whether your associated web page has the same content as your app page.

To help you find and fix these issues, we now show you the specific resources we can’t access that are critical for rendering your app page. If you see a content mismatch error for your app, look out for the list of blocked resources in “Step 5” of the details dialog:

4. Watch out for Android App errors

To help you identify errors when indexing your app, we’ll send you messages for all app errors we detect, and will also display most of them in the “Android apps” tab of the Crawl errors report.

In addition to the currently available “Content mismatch” and “Intent URI not supported” error alerts, we’re introducing three new error types:

• APK not found: we can’t find the package corresponding to the app.
• No first-click free: the link to your app does not lead directly to the content, but requires login to access.
• Back button violation: after following the link to your app, the back button did not return to search results.

In our experience, the majority of errors are usually caused by a general setting in your app (e.g. a blocked resource, or a region picker that pops up when the user tries to open the app from search). Taking care of that generally resolves it for all involved URIs.

Good luck in the pursuit of appiness! As always, if you have questions, feel free to drop by our Webmaster help forum.

Posted by Mariya Moeva, Webmaster Trends Analyst

Author. Erwin Widianto