I'm trying to programmatically fetch reviews from the iTunes store for a particular app. Like so:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/customerreviews/id=380293530/sortBy=mostRecent/xml
This works great, and the XML even has built in pagination telling me where's the next page is.
However, the last page that it will load is page 10. Everything afterwards (e.g. page 11) return bad gateway. Is this expected behavior?
Yes the iTunes Review RSS feed only goes up to page 10. We initially thought this was a bug, and filed a Radar. Apple closed it as "Works as intended".
So... you have to grab 10 pages, database each review with an ID, then store going forward to build up a longer history.
iTunes shows only maximum of 10 pages, so their (private) RSS API supports up to 10 pages.
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I have recently completed one website and am now working on SEO for same, in order to get listed in first 20 links of Google search.
Basically our website is on car rent services in Goa, India.
I completed with following things in SEO
Verified my website in Search console
Uploaded the .html file on server
Also uploaded robots.txt.
Generated site map and uploaded the same on server
Pages submitted for indexing ....in fetch as Google some pages show status as complete and partial
Key words added to pages using plugin.
All the above has been done but still our website is not getting listed in first 20 of Google search.
Pages submitted for indexing but still count shows 0.
Please help
Thank you
SEO is a slow and steady process; naturally it will take time to achieve the top position in search result.
Things you should do;
1) Add meta title and description to each page based on the keywords
2) Include keywords in URL of the page
3) Create a webmaster tool and use fetch page option to get listed in search engines (Example: Google webmaster is must needed)
4) Create brand pages in social media sites and interlink with website
5) submit your website to dmoz.org
https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo --> Useful guide for you
Check out Google's Webmaster Guidelines: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35769
Following these guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site.
So a company I'm working with gets mentioned in the media from time to time (BBC & other big news sites).
Is anyone aware of fees / licenses we will need to use the content that BBC etc provides using OpenGraph and post that content on our site?
So essentially we want a little card on our site with the page title, OG image, URL and possibly the description, when the user clicks this it will open the original page/link on the original source site.
I can't see too much info out there other than sharing on facebook, not using OpenGraph on our site.
Can anyone share some knowledge? Cheers!
If I get your question correctly, you want to retrieve posts on the BBC site, scrape the information and show in your own site, right?
Does the site of BBC, and possible others, provide a feed where you can subscribe to? In that case, you could monitor that feed for any mentions of your company.
Alternatively, you can use one of Facebook's partners that use the Keyword Insights API. There you can set up monitoring for your company name and integrate with their API.
I have a website that features a call to action/promotion button on nearly all pages of the site.
I have currently configured a conversion funnel that shows me how many people arrive on the call to action page, and then how many people make it to successfully complete the action page.
What I want to see though is how many unique visitors over the reporting see the banner at the top of the funnel.
eg. Something like this:
Visitors accessing website: 1000
Visitors clicked on call to action page: 100
Visitors successfully submitted call to action form: 45
My initial thoughts was to do this using the frontpage only, but I forgot that this banner/call to action ad is featured on many pages around the website. Many people find the site through SEO and never even pass through the frontpage.
Is it possible to use a wildcard for a domain or something similar in Google Analytics? Or maybe I am approaching this the wrong way.
Last of all - I know I can accomplish this by pulling up 2 reports: site wide unique visitors and comparing that to how many people hit the first stage of the existing conversion funnel. But it's a hassle to have to do this regularly manually.
While using funnel analysis, it is normal to have funnel steps that represent more than 1 urls. Take the basic case of ecommerce sites, where the final goal maybe the same transaction completion page, but the funnel step corresponding to product page can be triggered by many different product pages and not just one.
Based on the page url structure of your website, you can choose any of the below 2 match types to add multiple urls to a single step:
1, Begins with : If all the different pages displaying the ad have a set of common characters in the beginning, then use this.
2, Regular Expression Match : If the different pages that contain your banner ad how totally unrelated url, then find a suitable regex that can capture all those urls
So I am using the open graph meta tag module for drupal 6.0. Sometimes, when I paste an article url (on my site) into my facebook, the open graph images, description, etc shows up, but other times it does not. What can I do to make these show up all the time?
Can side loading time be a factor? If the site loads slow, can that affect the open graph images showing up or not?
It depends on when the article was scraped.
Facebook scrapes your page every 24 hours to ensure the properties are up to date. The page is also scraped when an admin for the Open Graph page clicks the Like button and when the URL is entered into the Facebook URL Linter. Facebook observes cache headers on your URLs - it will look at "Expires" and "Cache-Control" in order of preference. However, even if you specify a longer time, Facebook will scrape your page every 24 hours.
Source: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
I am trying to build a locally-based restaurant listing/reviews site. I can't help but notice that if I search for a restaurant on the web that sites like Yellow Pages or Yelp have a listing that appears at the top of the list for that restaurant. Obviously they don't have a separate web page for every restaurant in the US, but somehow their database of info is being read by the search engine. How is that accomplished?
Thanks in advance.
The information is stored in a database, and a template page just pulls up the information from the database and displays it. The URL appears to be a unique page for the restaurant by clever use of URL re-writing or, in .NET, using routing.
Routing basically takes a GET parameter from the url, incorporates it into the URL as a pseudo-path, then uses that parameter to get the database record to display the restaurant.