Google app indexing, how to check if it works on the website

Question

I've done a bunch of app-indexing work on our mobile app from tutorial here , and it seems to work locally, when I typed something in Google Now launcher box, the historical results show, clicking on it brings to our app. However, we track our weburl we submitted when doing app-indexing for the past month, no records of googlebot shown. So how do I check whether I did things correctly or the bot really working? Thanks

Answer 1

There are a couple things you can do:

1. Test whether your deep links are correct. You can do that with the Deep Link Testing tool, see this doc for information on that.
2. You can measure your deep links performance now, see here how to implement this, but basically the referrer information would be passed on in the Intent.EXTRA_REFERRER intent for you to extract referrer info.
3. You can use Search Console both to render your app, and to track its performance. For this you would have to add the app to Search Console (Add Property, then add the android app package name: android-app://com.xyz)