Right now I am running an A/B test through Google Website Optimizer(GWO). Adwords is used to link to a static version of a page that is not running in the test. I wanted to verify that if I set the destination url for adwords as my original page in the test that GWO will route traffic to my other test versions.
I wanted to verify that if I set the
destination url for adwords as my
original page in the test that GWO
will route traffic to my other test
versions.
Yes, traffic from adwords would be included in the test, which means visitors from adwords will randomly be assigned a test versions. In fact, any traffic to a a GWO test page will be included in the test.
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I've recently done a UI update for my website, the backend is all identical. I want to access the latest deploy (with the no-promote flag) from 'beta.my-website.com' but still access the 'normal' site from 'my-website.com'. Ideally this would dynamically serve the latest version, but if not could I set it statically to the URL with project ID? I have bought my domain from 123reg. Is there a way to direct to the latest version regardless of it's traffic serving status?
TL;DR Can you set up a 'beta' site at beta.mywebsite.com while still being able to access the live version on www.mywebsite.com on google cloud?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I don't think that can be done like that.
You could deploy to a different appengine project by putting a different project id and then have beta.mywebsite.com route to that project instead. The nice thing about this option is everything else would be isolated (i.e. no chance of your beta changes causing bad data in your production database, or tasks in your queues)
Another option would be to deploy to a different service within your project and use your dispatch.yaml to route beta.mywebsite.com to it https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python3/reference/dispatch-yaml
A third option would be to put beta as your version-id, and have your DNS redirect beta.mywebsite.com to beta-dot-your_project_id.appspot.com. However, when the user goes to beta.mywebsite.com they would ultimately see beta-dot-your_project_id.appspot.com in the URL bar. Also, when you're ready to go live, you would want to redeploy and promote that new version id and not promote the beta version-id.
I created an API using Python + FastAPI and deployed it to Google App Engine and I would like to measure the cost for each request made.
I saw there is a header "x-appengine-estimated-cpm-us-dollars" that show up when logged in with the owner account on GAE, but I didn't see it when accessed the API using the browser "https://example.uc.r.appspot.com/api"
Any idea how to can I see this header or a way to get an estimated cost for each request made?
Note: the deployed script is an API, not a website with auth like the one mentioned here (Usage of X-AppEngine-Estimated-CPM-US-Dollars in AppEngine)
According to the documentation:
If you access dynamic pages on your site while signed in using an administrator account, App Engine includes per-request statistics in the response headers
And then shows the description for this particular header, therefore, this is not something that is available for APIs hosted in AppEngine.
You could alternatively use the Cloud Billing API to gather some information, although not exactly the same.
I have setup Prerender.io for SEO of my one of my Angular based project. It's hosted on EC2 Instance running on Apache2 server.
Problem is, when I am doing Fetch or Fetch and Render on Google Webmaster, it not showing expected result.
Case1: If I am checking
http://mywebsite/something
It is fetching just index.html file
Case2: If I am checking
http://mywebsite/?_escaped_fragment_=/something
It is showing this:
Is there a way to verify and to show that crawler is actually crawling my website content or not. Specifically which content crawler actually getting.
I have an AngularJS SPA site which I wanted to test using google's "Fetch as Google" feature in webmaster tools. I am a little confused about the results. The screenshot from Googlebot looks correct however the response doesn't include any of the contents inside the "ui-view" (ui-router)... can someone explain what is happening here? Is google indexing the site properly since the screenshot is correct? Or is google not able to execute the JS properly for indexing?
This is a mixed bag. From some tests I've seen the GoogleBot is able to index some of the AJAX fetched content in some cases. A safe bet though to make all the search engines happy is to use prerender.io or download their open source stuff (uses PhantomJS) to have your site be easily indexable. Basically what this does is saves the version of your site after async operations have completed for a given URL and then you setup a redirect on your server that points any of the potential bots for search engines over to the preprocessed page. It sounds pretty complicated but following the instructions on the site it's not too hard to setup, and if you don't want to pay for prerender.io to serve cached copies of your pages to search engines you can run the server component yourself too.
When customers signup to my service (myservice.com), they get assigned a subdomain. So customer A would get a url to customerA.myservice.com, customer B would get a url like customerB.myservice.com etc.
I am working on a new version of the service, and would like to redirect some of the new customers to the new version to test the new version.
I know I can create different versions of the service, and split the traffic by ip and cookie between them. It is also possible to split traffic based on routing, but it seems, that in the end GAE still relies on either ip or cookie information to split the traffic: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/trafficsplitting#Routing. So if my customer accesses the my service on desktop, ipad and smartphone, he might sometimes get one version of my service on his desktop (at home) and another on his smartphone (on the road).
So my question is if it is possible to always direct customerA.myservice.com to one version of my service and customerB.myservice.com to another version, regardless of device, cookie or ip?
thanks
Thomas
It's not possible with Traffic Splitting feature of App Engine, but you can implement this logic yourself. When users hit your domain, you can choose which version of the app to serve them. There are three drawbacks:
It won't look pretty - the URLs pointing to individual versions may be confusing.
Users might bookmark the version URL, and later they will get an error when they hit it, if the version is no longer available.
You have to make sure that all URLs in your app are relative, if they point to your domain. Otherwise you might link across different versions.
Also, some versions may not be compatible due to the changes in the data model, i.e. you cannot run them in parallel.
Similar issues also arise with the App Engine's splitting - or any other traffic splitting. This is why I recommend to have a trusted group of your most enthusiastic users. Send them a new version as a "preview" and ask for their feedback. They will appreciate you reaching out to them, and they will not be confused if they hit a different version on a different device.