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Google Crawl Error> apple-app-site-association> No app, URL or link for link> Why?

I have:

  • simple static website;

  • hosted on a shared server;

  • with SSL;

  • which I recently reworked.

Google tells me that there were two URL crawl errors for my site:

  • apple-app-site-associations;

  • .well famous / apple-app-site-association

For reference, here is the error report for the first (the second is the same):

Not found

URL:

https://mywebsite.com/apple-app-site-association

Error Details

Last round: 5/5/16

First discovered: 5/5/16

Googlebot could not crawl this URL because it points to a page that does not exist. As a rule, 404 does not harm the performance of your site when searching, but you can use them to improve the user experience. More details

Looking back here, they seem to be related to binding the Apple application to the corresponding website.

I never tried to implement any “Apple / site application association” - at least not intentionally.

I cannot find out for life where these links come from.

I will remove these URLs, but I think the error may occur again.

I looked at a couple of related questions here, but they seem to refer to errors from people trying to do this check, but not from me, or from people asking why their server logs show requests to these URLs.

Can anyone shed some light on why this is happening?

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So the answer is that Googlebot is now looking for these URLs when they crawl your site and as part of their efforts to map associations between sites and their related applications. See: https://firebase.google.com/docs/app-indexing/ios/app

It seems that Googlebot was not (at this time) told not to return a crawl error if the URL does not exist.

Here is a link to the answer to a very similar (but slightly different) question, which gives more detailed information if you are so inclined: fooobar.com/questions/137341 / ...

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