I developed a Facebook app for my company. My app has over 10 monthly users, so I thought this was just a delay with FB rebuilding their search index. However, my app went live in February, and it still doesn't show up in the search. People can, however, play the game by using the canvas URL.
Also, users who have already added my app can find it in the FB search, just not any new players.
Sandbox mode is disabled.
Is there another setting somewhere that I need to change in order to make the app searchable?
Any other suggestions? I'm all Googled out. :(
The app needs to have had over 10 MAU for between 2 and 4 weeks before the search index is rebuilt to include your app; this is mentioned on the main Apps on Facebook documentation:
When your App reaches 10 monthly active users it will be automatically queued to be included in the search index the next time we rebuild our search index (we rebuild every 2-4 weeks). After the index is rebuilt your app will be discoverable via Search.
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I created a free education Chrome App and uploaded it via the Chrome Developer Dashboard. The App doesn't appear when I search for it with the Web Store search feature. Is there something missing in the manifest file or the descriptive material? There is no website associated with this App.
Thanks.
Edit: Thanks for the answer. Patience is the key with the Google Chrome Store.
The search index of Web Store is (probably) not updated immediately after publishing an extension/app.
Retrying the search a couple of hours after publication is complete will show it like normal.
Also, make sure your extension is actually published, and not stuck in automated or manual review. The former takes up to an hour, the latter can take days. Check your Developer Dashboard for the status of your item.
So I recently made Penn State Worthington Scranton's Facebook page.
I added a page tab app called "PSWS Social Media Hub".
It shows up for me when I am logged in, but it doesn't show up for anyone who is just searching for the page. How can I get it to show up for everyone else?
Thank you in advance!
Questions:
Have you put the app live?
Have you created the App Details page?
Is it a canvas app?
The docs at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/appcenter#creating are stating
We encourage all developers to create an App Details page so that the app appears in search and can be made eligible for listing in the App Center.
For Canvas apps, apparantly 10 MAUs are neccessary to be shown in the search results (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/canvas#search):
When your app exceeds 10 monthly active users it will be automatically queued to be included in the search index the next time we rebuild our search index (we rebuild every 2-4 weeks). After the index is rebuilt your app will be discoverable via Search.
I noticed that across all of my facebook apps there was a significant drop in users between 14th-15th September. After spending some time investigating any possible cause (as I had launched an update that day), and finding nothing, I looked on appdata.com and it seems that almost every game has this big drop on the same dates.
I have checked the blog and couldn't see anything obvious to say why this might be. Does anyone know the cause of this change in insights data? Or is this a bug?
They changed the way that the number of active users was calculated. According to here:
Facebook has changed the way it calculates the total monthly and daily active users (MAU and DAU) for apps on the social network, sending figures plummeting.
The adjustment means that users who choose not to authenticate after a permission dialog box is clicked, and those who visit an app but do not log in, will no longer be contribute towards active user counts.
As a result of the changes, some games have seen more than half of their previously reported user figures drop away (though these changes have made no difference to the actual traffic each game sees).
facebook changed how user's bookmarks appear on sept 13th, which meant that a lot of users that used to see your bookmark on the left side of their homepage no longer could. As of that date facebook seems to use way less space to list bookmarks, only showing bookmarks for apps you use a lot or have just used. The only way to counter this is to educate your users to set the bookmark for your app as a favorite, which gives that bookmark a permantent position (hopefully) forever in the top section of the left margin of their homepage.
I have developed a Facebook app and associated with the page. I don't have the 'sandbox' checked. However I don't see the app in the Search-box. Do I have to wait certain days for the app to appear in 'search'? I scoured the documentation but I didn't find an answer (the link the document mentions is not present!). Also, I don't see a 'Submit' button mentioned by other questions either. Any input appreciated.
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Facebook now indexes apps automatically once they have 10 users, the search index is rebuilt every 2-4 weeks, this was announced here: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/565
My new App dosent show up in search, and on the app profile page it wont show the "go to app" button
i did create the app on a https (secure) canvas page, but it just wont work properly, also my app is coded to post to the users wall, but it's not posting to walls. Can facebook have removed my app wall posting rights? can it have to do with that i use a new app i setup before you had to verify your facebook accounts to create apps? i havent verifyed my account. Can that be it? please i really need your help!
You say it's a new app, so it likely hasn't been submitted to search because you either don't have 10 active users yet, or Facebook hasn't rebuilt their index to include your app yet.
"We have removed the “Submit to Search" link from the app settings
page. Now, when your app reaches 10 monthly active users it will be
queued to be indexed the next time we rebuild our index (we rebuild
every 2-4 weeks). If you already have 10 monthly active users it will
be added to the indexing queue immediately."
Source: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/565/