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Home delivery of Custom Search to webmasters
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Posted by:
Radu Cornea, Software Engineer and Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager
Until today, when you wanted to add Google Custom Search to your site, you had to head directly to our
Custom Search Engine site
. Although creating your own Google-powered search engine only takes a few minutes, we thought it might be easier if we
delivered
this functionality right to where many of you manage your sites online. Choice is a beautiful thing.
If you own a website hosted on
IPOWER
,
StartLogic
,
PowWeb
,
FatCow
,
BizLand
,
EasyCGI
and several other web hosting providers, you can now configure Custom Search right in your hoster's management console - these hosters now support both
Webmaster Tools
and
Custom Search
. It's like having pizza delivered to your door instead of having to drive over to the pizza parlour!
When you sign up for the service, you get the following benefits, all from the comfort of your hoster's control panel:
a Google account is automatically created for you - you don't have to remember additional passwords or login to use these Google services
you can generate search engines for your websites by simply identifying your domains
shortcuts are provided to manage your Webmaster Tools account and your Custom Search Engines
Sitemaps
for URLs on your sites can be automatically submitted to Webmaster Tools for better indexing on Google.com
your Custom Search engines will automatically recognize and use the submitted Sitemaps for enhanced indexing coverage
you can make money by associating your
Adsense
publisher ID with your search engines and sharing advertising revenue with Google
you can upgrade your search engines to use
Site Search
for further control over branding, presentation (via XML results) and
On-Demand indexing
If your site is hosted by one of the above providers, give it a try - go to your hoster's console and add a search box to your site if you don't already have one. High quality search
improves user experience
, and also directly increases user engagement and improves conversions on web sites.
Additionally,
let us know
if there are things about this integrated service offering that we can improve. Our
programmer's guide
provides more details about the new Custom Search APIs that allow programmatic creation and management of Custom Search engines. If you are a web site hoster interested in incorporating these Google webmaster services into your platform, please
contact us
.
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