I'm trying to write a chrome extension that runs on every page of a website (think Reddit, YouTube, etc.)
I can inject my chrome extension into these pages fine but I cannot get the Google Sign In button to work since, obviously, dynamic URLs are not allowed by Google.
Is there a way to have my log in button redirect to a static domain that's known by Google OAuth so that authentication is successful and then somehow send the resulting BasicProfile back to the original application?
Alternatively, is there an easier way to get this information? All I want is the basic information(name, imageURL).
For reference, I am using React in my project and I currently have my sign in button set up with react-google-login.
Thank you so much in advance!
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I would like to redirect a search query to google from a chrome extension but google/chrome does not allow it.
I'm to ask a simple link that will redirect to the following: https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+news. But since my domain is (for example) www.tesla-news.com I cannot redirect to google.com/search?q=tesla+news but just to redirect to tesla-news.com/search?q=tesla+news. And also allow people to search themselves within google chrome extension and simply redirect them to google.
I was thinking of doing some kind of simple re directing in server side? For example - getting tesla-news.com/search?q=tesla+news in my site and redirecting to https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+news.
Does anybody have an idea how to solve it?
Thanks!
I search Google for a phrase which brings up my website.
Google shows a URL similar to
https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=my%20search
This brings up my website. On the landing page of my website, I have the following javascript
alert(document.referral);
This shows me the value
https://www.google.co.uk/
No querystring!
Research suggests the issue is likely due to my website being HTTP but both Google and my website use HTTPS
Why can I not get the search phrase from the query string?
Edit
Based upon the links I've been provided (thanks) I can see what you are claiming the issue is. Google doesn't allow it! However, I'm not sure I agree with this - there are many web analytical programs which provide this information. The company I have used (which admittedly can only provide keywords for 5% of all visitors) can do this... And I only embed some javascript. I can only assume it's because visitors can home HTTP:://google as opposed to HTTPS::google
have a look at this document: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/analytics/the-impact-of-google-encrypted-search/
It apparently has something to do with google running HTTPS. on my local tomcat server running HTTP, i get
http://servername/tools/errorlog.jsp?env=Prod&logType=EXTAUTHLOG when running
alert(document.referrer) in a console
Duplicate of:
How can I get the correct referer via JavaScript if the referrer uses https? ??
I am a complete Google Analytics beginner and would appreciate a help with a basic question.
I am developing HTML, CSS and JavaScript based applications which are further uploaded into an iOS application to present your applications in a fancy way. Therefore my application is a hybrid application (half JS web site, half mobile app).
I would love to see users' activity in my app when they are browsing through it and I thought GA might work well with it - but the problem is, that the outer app doesn't provide me with any URL of my inner JS app (the inner web site's URL is file:///).
At this page (link), I found that URL is not really important, that it is the tracking code which is important. So I used a dummy URL, added the GA snippet into my application and uploaded it in iPresent. I can't see no live activity though... :/ It also says the measuring is not installed (not used at a home page).
So I am wondering - is the URL really important?
Any ideas?
Thanks!
URL (or page path) is only important if you want to report on data based on which URLs your visitors went to.
If you app doesn't use URLs at all, perhaps it fits better with the "app" model where you are sending screen name data instead of page data. You can read more about the differences between web and app views here:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2649553
I found out that URL is not needed. This type of problem can be solved by using GA Measurement Tool
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/
Validate your hit here:
https://ga-dev-tools.appspot.com/hit-builder/
I'm working on a web app which uses Backbone's HTML5 History option. In order to avoid having to code everything on the client and on the server, I'm using this method to route every request to index.html
I was wondering if there is a way to get Twitter Cards to work with this setup, as currently it can't read the page as everything is loaded in dynamically with Javascript.
I was thinking about using User Agents to detect whether it's the TwitterBot, and if it is, serving a static version of the page with the required meta-tags. Would this work?
Thanks.
Yes.
At one job we did this for all the SEO/search/facebook stuff etc.
We would sniff the user-agent, and if it was one of the following sniffers
Facebook Open Graph
Google
Bing
Twitter
Yandex
(a few others I can't remember)
we would redirect to a special page that was written to dump all the relevant data about the page for SEO purposes into a nicely formatted (but completely unstyled) page.
This allowed us to retain our google index position and proper facebook sharing even though our site was a total single-page app in backbone.
Yes, serving a specific page for Twitterbot with the right meta data markup will work.
You can test your results while developing using the card's preview tool.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/preview (with your static URL or just the tags).
I'm using google maps for a website. All the data available via the map on the home page is also listed on other pages throughout the site, but with javascript turned on these pages redirect to the home page: eg http://host.com/county/essex redirects to http://host.com/#county/essex, which makes the map load all the data for Essex.
I'd like Google to index all the pages on my site, as otherwise none of the data included in the map will be searchable. But I know that for very good reasons Google doesn't normally index pages which get redirected. Is there a way to get Google to index my pages. Or, failing that, is there a way to submit all the data to google in some other way?
*edit
All my pages are linked to from my main navigation (it's just that javascript overrides the default link action)... the upshot being that there should be no need for a sitemap as all the pages are discoverable by google bot using normal link following
Regarding submitting data to google, there is a thing called Google sitemaps that is supposed to notify google of all URIs/locations that exist on a given site and are/should be indexed. Truth is, however, that sites that aren't crawlable by default rarely benefit much from the aforementioned sitemap.
Have a look at site Maps it allows you to include urls you need indexed.
You write:
with javascript turned on these pages redirect to the home page
Google bot doesn't execute javascript. If your redirects are made in javascript, Google bot will simple index the page and ignore the redirect.