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 How
to Add a Search Engine to Your Site
By
Herman Drost
© 2005
When visitors arrive at your web site you want them to find the information
quickly otherwise they will lose patience and move on. A great way achieve
this is to add a search engine or search box to your web site. Since most
visitors are already familiar with using search engines such as Google, they
can easily use the search feature on your site.
In this article I will discuss:
A. The benefits of adding a search engine
B. Types of search service providers
C. Where to place a search box on your site
D. How does the search engine work
A. Benefits of adding a search engine and types of sites where it can be
used.
1. Ecommerce sites - your ecommerce site usually has many different types
of products so the navigation menu is not focused enough to rapidly find
the specific product your visitor is looking for. Adding a search engine
to your ecommerce site will help the visitor to easily and quickly zoom in
on the product by entering their keyword in the search box.
2. Dynamic sites - search engines have difficulty spidering dynamically generated
web pages. These are pages often generated from a database, so the information
on your pages will not appear in the search engine's index. Add a search
engine to each page of your site. If a visitor arrives on that page from
one of the large search engines, they can then do a quick search from that
page instead of searching elsewhere.
3. Small sites - web sites that contain 5-10 pages don't need a search engine
because visitors don't have to search through many pages to find the information.
Instead, make sure you create a simple navigation menu at the top or side
and bottom of your web pages.
B. Types of search service providers
1. Atomz (www.atomz.com) - Atomz Express Search is a free service where you
can integrate basic search capability on your personal web site or on one
of your commercial sites. It can be used on sites with 750 total pages or
less and allows customization of look and feel to match your site's design.
Some third-party text ads are shown above and below the search results. You
can use it for as long as you like for there is no trial period.
2. Freefind (www.freefind.com) - features include the ability to customize
search and results pages. The free accounts are limited to 3,000 pages or
32MB of storage. Site search is hosted on FreeFind's server. It generates
a site map for you, tracks visitors searches and indexes password protected
pages.
3. Google Free site search service (www.google.com/services/free.html) -
searches only the specific domain(s) that you list when you create your search
box. You can customize your results display to include background, text and
link colors you select. The search box itself will reside on your web site.
The search results page will be served by Google with the customized look
and feel you specify. Google may serve ads on the results page. You can do
an unlimited amount of searches. You must display the Google logo on the
web pages that contain the search box.
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C. Where to place the search engine
on your site?
1. Place the search box in a prominent location on your web page...preferably
top center or top right.
2. Place the search box on all pages of your web site. Visitors may enter
your site from any page.
3. Make the search box large enough to accommodate all search terms the visitor
would use to find the information.
4. The search box should be a type-in box, not a link so visitors don't have
to wait for another page to load.
5. Limit the search results to 50 per page. Visitors lose their patience
if they have to scroll through long lists of results.
D. How does the search engine work?
It works similar to the major search engines that search the web, however
instead of crawling the web the search engine spider will search your site.
The results of the crawl are stored in a database that resides on the search
company's server.
The company provides the necessary code to add a simple form to your web
page. This usually consists of a search box for inserting your keywords and
a send button. When you click the button it sends the query to the search
company. They process the query to create a search results page. This shows
those pages in your site that match the visitor's query.
The quality of the search results the search engine spider collects depends
on how much information is contained in your site. Therefore take time to
correctly optimize your site i.e. provide lots of good content that includes
your keywords. Optimize your meta tags, images and create an accessible
navigation structure.
Optimizing your site will not only provide focused results from your internal
search engine but also boost your rankings in the major search engines.
About the Author:
| Herman Drost
is the Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) owner and author of
http://www.iSiteBuild.com.
Affordable Web Site Design and Web Hosting. Subscribe to his "Marketing Tips"
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