889565 - Marketplace has poor description in Google search results

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Consumer Pages, defect, P2)

Description

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Attachment: screenshot

From email:

> https://www.google.se/search?q=Firefox+Marketplace
> 
> Can we please make sure to have some regular or more friendly content there
>  for non-JavaScript users, than just a warning?

Comment 1

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

Spaceheater fixes all of this. But we can probably come up with some better alt text for now.

Basta, can you think of a reason why Google would read from the <noscript>? I thought Google always used headless WebKit to crawl pages?

Comment 2

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

Google crawls pages with a dumb crawler until the "good crawler" has time to make its way around, from what I understand.

But in the short term the answer is "no, we can't do anything about this."

Comment 3

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

Some minor changes to our meta tags have alleviated much of this.

Comment 4

[David Larlet [:davidbgk]]

Attachment: Current results against google.fr

The current result against google.fr displays:

Firefox Marketplace. Sign In. All Categories. Featured Apps. View All. KAYAK. Free. Rated 4 out of 5 stars. Badoo. Free. Rated 5 out of 5 stars. BuzzFeed. Free.

Comment 5

[Davor Spasovski [:spasovski]]

https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/commit/ef33292

and 

https://github.com/mozilla/fireplace/commit/4ff0c97