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Allowing your website visitors to search your site to find exactly what they are looking for could be the difference between a happy customer and a frustrated customer. If your visitors want to find something on your site but are having a hard time, a search box can be a good incentive for them to stay on your site and continue browsing. This tutorial is going to show you how you can put a Google search box on your iWeb website. Be sure to learn how to get your iWeb site to rank higher in search engines with the iWeb SEO video course.

Video Transcript

Adding a Google custom search box to your website will allow your websites visitors to quickly find what they are looking for, using Google’s search technology.

Adding the search box is pretty simple. First, open your web browser to http://www.google.com/cse . Next, press the ‘Create A Custom Search Engine’ button.

On the following page, fill out the required information. In the ‘Sites to search’ box, list the sites that you want to appear in the search results. Usually this will just be your one website.

There are two editions of the custom search engines you can use. The standard edition is free, and has ads shown on the results page. If you want no ads, you can purchase that for a minimum of $100 per year depending on how many searches are performed on your site. For this demonstration, I will stick with the free edition as that is what i think most of you will be choosing.

Next, you will be able to customize how you want the search results page to appear. Choose whichever option you like best, and then press the Next button.

The third step will show us a code for our search box. Highlight that code and copy it.

Then open up iWeb, and drag the HTML snippet to your page. Paste the code that you just copied. Your search box will now appear and you can place it wherever you want on your page. If you want the search box to be on multiple pages of your website, you will need to copy and paste it onto those pages.

Learn how to get your iWeb site ranking higher in search engines with the SEO For iWeb Walkthrough Video Tutorial, by visiting ragesw.com