1page.title=Making Your App Content Searchable by Google 2page.tags="app indexing", "search" 3meta.tags="getusers", "search","appindexing" 4page.image=images/cards/google-search_2x.png 5trainingnavtop=true 6startpage=true 7 8@jd:body 9 10<div id="tb-wrapper"> 11<div id="tb"> 12 13<h2>Dependencies and prerequisites</h2> 14<ul> 15 <li>Android 2.3 (API level 9) and higher</li> 16</ul> 17 18<h2>You Should Also Read</h2> 19<ul> 20<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> 21<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/app-indexing/" class="external-link" 22target="_blank">App Indexing for Google Search</a></li> 23<li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/components/intents-filters.html">Intents and Intent 24Filters</a></li> 25</ul> 26</div> 27</div> 28<a class="notice-developers-video wide" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aISUYHTkTOU"> 29<div> 30 <h3>Video</h3> 31 <p>DevBytes: App Indexing</p> 32</div> 33</a> 34 35<p>As mobile apps become more pervasive, users are looking for relevant 36information not only from web sites but also from apps they have installed. 37You can enable Google to crawl through your app content and present your 38Android app as a destination to users through Google Search results, when 39that content corresponds to a web page that you own.</p> 40 41<p>You can make it possible for Google Search to open specific content in your 42 app by providing intent filters for your activities. Google Search 43app indexing complements this capability by presenting links to relevant app 44content alongside links to your web pages in users' search results. Users on 45mobile devices can then click on a link to open your app from their search 46results, allowing them to directly view your app's content instead of a 47web page.</p> 48 49<p>To enable Google Search app indexing, you need to provide Google with 50information about the relationship between your app and web site. This process 51involves the following steps:</p> 52<ol> 53<li>Enable deep linking to specific content 54in your app by adding intent filters in your app manifest.</li> 55<li>Annotate these links in the associated web pages on your web site or in a 56 Sitemap file.</li> 57<li>Opt in to allow Googlebot to crawl through your APK in the Google Play store 58 to index your app content. You are automatically opted-in when you join as 59 a participant in the early adopter program. 60</li> 61</ol> 62 63<p itemprop="description">This class shows how to enable deep linking and indexing of 64your application content so that users can open this content directly from mobile search 65results.</p> 66 67<h2>Lessons</h2> 68 69<!-- Create a list of the lessons in this class along with a short description of each lesson. 70These should be short and to the point. It should be clear from reading the summary whether someone 71will want to jump to a lesson or not.--> 72 73<dl> 74 <dt><b><a href="deep-linking.html">Enabling Deep Links for App 75Content</a></b></dt> 76 <dd>Shows how to add intent filters to enable deep linking to app 77content.</dd> 78 <dt><b><a href="enabling-app-indexing.html">Specifying App Content for 79Indexing</a></b></dt> 80 <dd>Shows how to annotate web site metadata to allow Google's algorithms to index 81app content.</dd> 82</dl> 83
