critical issue ERROR 302!

[Kellie Saisa]

We urgently need assistance with a critical issue: Google Analytics is malfunctioning, preventing the crawler (Google bot) from indexing extension pages in the Chrome Web Store. Consequently, attempts to launch Google Ads campaigns on these extension pages result in HTTP 302 errors due to the crawler's inability to index the pages.

 Please prioritize this matter and resolve it promptly. You can verify the issue using third-party services like httpstatus, selecting the Google bot user agent, and testing any extension link from the Chrome Web Store.

Your swift attention to this matter is greatly appreciated.

[Tim Bourquin]

Agreed. Tried to do a Google Ad for our extension a few weeks ago and finally gave up.  Google kept insisting the extension web page didn't exist.

[Patrick Kettner]

Hey Folks!

Thanks for reporting the issue.

What URL are you using specifically?

patrick

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[Tim Bourquin]

Hi Patrick,

For us we tried to advertise to our chrome extension directly: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gmail-auto-pop-out-reply/kljpfdhhkedleikgfdapojgjkadgoljg

[Kellie Saisa]

The problem is not with a specific URL, but with ANY URL that leads to an extension in the Chrome Web Store

[Patrick Kettner]

Understood!

But the expedite a fix it is usually a lot more helpful to know the exact replication steps, to minimize any difference. If, for example, someone as using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb instead of https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-translate/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb, that would be a meaningful difference.

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[Patrick Kettner]

i'm checking it out!

thanks everyone

On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 12:26 PM Tim Bourquin <tim.bo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Patrick - it may be a Google Ads issue - perhaps a reason why they don't allow advertising of chrome extensions?  That would seem odd, but who knows.

[Aleksey]

It could be reproduced like this:

Works OK if user agent represents some modern browser

curl -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.3' -v https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-translate/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb 

HTTP 200

Other user agent, for example, curl. it's probably also the case for Google Bot user agent.

curl -v https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-translate/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb

HTTP 302

... 

location: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aapbdbdomjkkjkaonfhkkikfgjllcleb

[Patrick Kettner]

Appreciate it!

We have a fix for the issue. It will be rolled out in the near future. I will make sure we update the mailing list once it is live

best

patrick

[Tim Bourquin]

Outstanding - thanks Patrick!

Tim

[Patrick Kettner]

Happy Friday everyone,

Thanks again for reporting the problem! The team was able to confirm the problem last night, and has since successfully deployed a fix. If anyone is still hitting the problem, please don't hesitate to reach out.

best

patrick