Comments on: Implementing Google Custom Search on WordPress

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:21:41 +0000

Try adding a sitemap to your blog (both Google XML Sitemaps and Daigon Design Sitemaps), and then post a new blog post linking to the sitemaps. When Google indexes your new blog post, it will index the content the post links to as well. Then wait about 2 weeks to see the results.

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:20:23 +0000

Hmmm, I wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for the note. I haven’t really revisited the Google integration since integrating it into the site. It seems to help me find posts I’m looking for, most of the time. Ideally, I’d like to do a much better job making the 1,000 plus posts on my site visible, though.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:44:45 +0000

Here’s the only article I could find on this topic:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch/thread?tid=7b512d30806b992d&hl=en

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:43:45 +0000

The one issue I have found is that Google Custom Search indexes the sidebar content too. So, if you have a Popular Posts or Recent Posts section, every page will show up when someone searches for a word in the title of a topic in one of those lists. I have not found a way to exclude sidebar content from Google search.

SEO helps list the best article at the top, but you still get the other hits below that are very misleading.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:19:24 +0000

Found the answer on another site — once you’ve set up the GCS, click on the “look and feel” link, then you can choose the iframe, etc.

Between both sets of info, maybe I’ll get this to work!

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:09:55 +0000

I think Google has changed the setup. I didn’t get an iframe option, and only one bit of code to paste in.

Any chance you’d update the directions? I tried to figure it out myself to put a Google Custom Search bar at the top of my sidebar, but I just can’t get it with their new stuff.

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By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:58:21 +0000

You know, I tried a lot of different things to get it to work, and now I can’t remember what the magic tweak was. Basically, I believe that creating that page within WordPress’s pages (not just a file within the theme) was helpful.

By: Yash

Yash — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:33:51 +0000

I did what you have written but couldn’t get through. Is there any css tweak too?

By: iPhone Gratis

iPhone Gratis — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:49:19 +0000

I think having this on your blog is very helpful for your users, rather than opening a new tab etc they can just search straight from your blog!