Is Google Site Search for Small Businesses Right for your Site?
Google launched an innovative new tool. Its Google Site Search for Small Businesses.
What is it?
Its the same search tool that Google is made out of. Its also the same search tool that Google has offered through Google Adsense Search for a long time.
What’s the difference?
Nothing that I can see.
Google Site Search enables a small business to provide their visitors with the ability to search the site they are looking from or search the internet. They offered
When is it right to use Google Search on your site?
Most sites are looking to make their sites stickier. It doesn’t make sense to put a function on your site that sends people away, possibly to a competitor. Most sites with shopping carts like this site that sells tonneau cover and other accessories for cars and trucks offers a search function that doesn’t use Google technology.
When do You Use Google’s new tool?
Not Here – Now if that same site had used a Google search button it would allow people an easier out from their website with little to no benefit.
Not Here – Other sites that earn money from Adsense probably wouldn’t want to use the new function either as they don’t earn any money from it.
Here – but Why? - So that really only leaves that odd site that wants to share their traffic with Google and not earn anything in the exchange. Why do something for free when you could earn money doing it? Regardless, Google still leaves their ads mixed in with the results.