We already set up a branch project, with branch links and it works fine, is it possible to have 2 different behaviors on 2 links on branch?
i am talking about the behavior of the desktop click:
for example, i want that one link will open site A, and another will open site B (not under the same domain)
or to have one link redirect to a web page, and another to be redirected to the Branch-hosted SMS Landing Page
couldn't find the option on branch.io link settings
thanks.
Full disclosure, I work at Branch. You can definitely have each of your Branch links redirect to different sites.
For a Quick link, you need to update the Desktop redirect to the web address you want the link to redirect to.
For the Branch links you create in the Mobile SDK or using the HTTP API, you can add the $desktop_url:"http://www.example.com" parameter to the links.
To learn more about Deep links, you can refer to the documentation here.
Related
Can't navigate a specific page by url
Hello everyone, I have a little problem, I had a "boilerplate" project with Vue3 + Laravel. And I wanted to use link so people can navigate specific page, for example here's a link you can navigate
https://klim2020.github.io/
After that you are able to open portfolio page by clicking on Portfolio link at the right top of the page. As you see you have that
/cv/en
adress at the address bar
But if you will try to navigate this link from other source you will get Error
Cannot GET /cv/en
try to navigate from here https://klim2020.github.io/cv/en
Why is this happening can you tell me please?
First off, I do recommend hosting on Netlify or Vercel, those will fix the issue that you do have here.
GH pages are just not worth it. And the other 2 services are more flexible, as free and quite powerful.
The issue here being that if you go to a specific path with a "hard navigation", not a client-side one (via vue-router), you SPA will not be in that specific endpoint. Hence why, you will get a 404 (your initial entry point is available a /).
You also need to use the history mode rather than the current # that you do have in your path.
Best thing? The part explaining how to solve your current issue with Netlify/Vercel is also explained in a section below (mainly providing a redirects/rewrites configuration).
I have the following requirement and based on the branch docs I cannot get myself a straight answer.
We want to enable deep links that if the user has the app installed that it uses them and if not redirects to download then redirects.
If the user is on a desktop they get redirected to a page to download app.
We want to control all the actual deep linking using react navigation config and wanted to know how we can pair the two!? The guides are very poorly written and makes understanding the flow a nightmare.
Some guidance and suggestions on how best to accomplish this would be great.
P.s. are the links generated that when app found it takes the prefix and replaces with appname:// ??
Your requirement for deep linking can be handled with Branch, you can set the URI schemes of the apps under the link settings of your Branch dashboard and also mention your app on PlayStore/Appstore for the user to download the app when clicked on the link.Similarly you can add the redirection URLs for the scenarios when your link is clicked on a desktop.
Alternatively you can use our React SDK to create links with all these link properties and even more. More details here.
The handling of the deep link data and redirecting the user to the desired page can be found here.
If you wish to know more about how Branch passes data through to the app and attributes app sessions, check this.
BACKGROUND
I have an app that was set up using a default branch domain (ex: my.app.link).
Links were created using my.app.link. Many of these links needed to mirror existing links I have in production (with another linking service that we are migrating off of) that use a format not supported in Branch.io, so I had to work around the issue by using a '-' in place of '.' in the link's path. This is a solution recommended by Branch with the assurance that the '.' would be translated to a '-' on the backend at Branch.io (this appears to work fine).
I recently had a custom subdomain CNAMEd over to custom.bnc.lt (ex: myapp.mydomain.com).
The link settings in the Branch.io dashboard have been updated to use the custom subdomain (change is valid: "Domain is correctly set up and SSL is working.").
ISSUES
All pre-existing quick links still have the old default domain, no clicks register even though they 'work' with the new subdomain.
Duplicating one of these links picks up the new subdomain, but the url that gets created is http, not https (which is the default for any other link we created and there doesn't seem to be a way to choose one protocol or the other, nor can it be updated in the dashboard). This also seems to be causing link clicks to not track in the dashboard.
The fact that we mirrored links from another platform using a workaround (replacing '.' for a '-'), also seems to cause link clicks to not track in the dashboard.
QUESTIONS
How does Branch.io handle link clicks for a quick link that has been set up for an app using a custom subdomain? Does the configured link need to match 1:1 to the link that is clicked on the device?
How can I fix the original links, especially if I can't duplicate them (to pick up the custom subdomain) in a way that gives me a 1:1 match to the previous link I created (since the new link is http and the others are https, as would be distributed in a live/production environment)?
Why isn't Branch tracking link clicks for the x.y.z links that I set up as x-y-z? This aliasing works fine, and seemed to be tracking clicks fine in test.
Amruta from Branch.io here:
1. How does Branch.io handle link clicks for a quick link that has been set up for an app using a custom subdomain?
A: For all Branch links, every time a Branch link is clicked the click is is registered by Branch. Using a custom domain (if configured properly) should not cause any problems in registering clicks on the Branch dashboard neither should using Quick links cause any issues. Also Branch links with either schemes http:// or https:// register link clicks. Having Branch links with http:// scheme should not cause any issues with registering link clicks
2.All pre-existing quick links still have the old default domain
A: The old links created on the app.link will not be updated with your custom domain. If you wish to use links with your link domain, you can create new links with the same link parameters. (PS: both links on the old app.link domain and links on your custom domain should work as before if you still have your App configured to support the app.link domain links.)
3. Duplicating one of these links picks up the new subdomain, but the url that gets created is http, not https
A: At present, the Branch API creates Branch links for custom domains with the 'http://'scheme. This is because we are not sure if custom domains have the SSL certificate and creating links with the https:// scheme would break for such domains. Hence by default, all custom domain links are created using the http:// scheme. There is no direct way to create links using the https:// scheme using the Branch API, the only way you can do it is by manually changing the scheme from 'http' to 'https://'.
4. Why isn't Branch tracking link clicks for the x.y.z links that I set up as x-y-z? This aliasing works fine, and seemed to be tracking clicks fine in test.
I believe, the issue here has nothing to do with your custom domain but is maybe related to a key mismatch. You mention that the link clicks were tracked in the test version of the App, which leads me to believe that your app is still using the Branch key from the test version (key format: key_test_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX). Please ensure that your App is using the correct key. The simple test for this: When you click on the Branch link, you get the link parameters in your app and the link parameters contain +clicked_branch_link:true. If so, the link click will be tracked on Branch's end.
If you still continue to face issues, you could write to integrations#branch.io and our team would be more than happy to help you resolve the issue.
Is there any way to create a link within Branch.io which instead of loading the installed app, would instead bring the user to the app's page in the store where the user could review the app. This would be used in email marketing.
Amruta from Branch.io here:
If you want users to be directed to a specific page you can make the links as Web Only.
For iOS: When you create the link specify the $ios_redirect to your App page on the App Store and add $web_only: true to your deep link data. The Branch link thus created will redirect to the web URL you have specified as the iOS redirect (in this case the App Store page).
For Android: When you create the link specify the $android_redirect to your App page on the Play Store and similarly add $web_only: true to your deep link data. The Branch link thus created will redirect to the web URL you have specified as the Android redirect (in this case the Play Store page).
PS: For Android, if you have App links setup for your App clicking on the link will redirect to your App irrespective. For this to work, you should remove the App links configuration in your App and the Branch dashboard if any.
You can check the list of possible parameters for configuring links here.
Edit:
1. Add the $web_only parameter in the Deep Linking section
Set the iOS and Android redirect to the App Store and Play Store URLs respectively.
I want to link my mobile variant website version to the desktop version i.e "view website in desktop". You click this button and it will take you to the desktop version only. Program I use is Xara Web Designer. CPanel is where the files are hosted.
They have advised I need to create two copies of my website to do this.
I can duplicate my website but how would I go about uploading the two copies to CPanel? Also I would need to remove the robots.txt file from one of them because I do not want google crawling the duplicate site (SEO Issues).
Would I need two domains? I want to keep just one.
Thanks in advance please let me know if you need clarification on anything.
There are better solutions with regards to SEO such as making your website 'mobile responsive'. But to answer your specific question, you are probably best to create a mobile website and set it up on a 'm.' subdomain (so you only need your 1 domain name). You can do this from cPanel under 'Subdomains'.
As for no-indexing the mobile website with robots.txt, the correct method is to use the 'canonical' tag. This is a good guide from Google on the subject: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/mobile-sites/mobile-seo/overview/select-config?hl=en