SEO and Google App Engine

[student_thesis]

Hello

A big decision in moving our high volume website completely to google
app engine is to see, how does GAE handle SEO of a website.

We dont want to lose on our SEO rankings with the move.

I cant find one popular SEO website in google app engine.

I tried typing a few GAE app names in google and the app does not come
up.

So does google ever index GAE apps?

We are willing to make an investment in GAE development, if someone
can shed light on the SEO issue.

Thanks

[Nick Johnson (Google)]

Hello student_thesis,

Google does not treat App Engine apps any differently to other sites
when it comes to indexing and ranking.

Note that many apps serve primarily off their own domain, not off
appspot.com - you can't tell simply by looking at the domain name if
it's being hosted by App Engine or not.

-Nick Johnson

--
Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine

[Barry Hunter]

AppEngine itself is just hosting - so it doesnt really have much effect on SEO.

Dont forget that you can access a appengine app via a custom domain -
so you might not even know a site is AppEngine.


As to indexing them - yes: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:appspot.com
and a random example http://www.google.com/search?q=life+flow+charts

2009/8/10 student_thesis <praka...@gmail.com>:

[Holger]

This flow chart page may be a nice example:
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/11/life_flow_chart_community_authored_flowcharts.html

On the other hand it seems clear that Appengine still needs time and
massive investment by Google if Appengine shall become a kind of
blockbuster application earning money for Google.

To become more popular it needs a better documentation understandable
not only for experts.

To attract high traffic sites it needs far better datastore handling
with professional snapshot backups, high speed bulk data up/downloads
of the whole datastore (not only single kinds), single command high
speed deletion of whole kinds and some professional framework has to
be developed to an extend that it runs equally on Appengine as on Non-
Appengine infrastructure to guarantee the possibility not being stuck
to Google.

On Aug 10, 8:39 pm, Barry Hunter <barrybhun...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> AppEngine itself is just hosting - so it doesnt really have much effect on SEO.
>
> Dont forget that you can access a appengine app via a custom domain -
> so you might not even know a site is AppEngine.
>
> As to indexing them - yes:http://www.google.com/search?q=site:appspot.com
> and a random examplehttp://www.google.com/search?q=life+flow+charts
>

> 2009/8/10 student_thesis <prakash...@gmail.com>:

[Juraj Vitko]

Well for starters I'd welcome more than 100 composite indexes limit, a
real paging support (next, previous, jump to a page no.), and rock
solid indexes so that app customer data don't get mixed on an index
accident. Then a big file service and freetext search indexing.

But it's still the sexiest hosting platform on the net - pls let me
know if you know a better one.


On Aug 10, 9:28 pm, Holger <w...@arcor.de> wrote:
> This flow chart page may be a nice example:http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/11/life_flow_chart_community_au...

[Holger]

> But it's still the sexiest hosting platform on the net -

Sure the sexiest.

That's why we're here and try to convince Google to add what lacks.