custom google adsense custom search hack
- Tim Brockman
- @ 6:13 pm
I was discussing the nuances of Google's AdSense custom search on their help forum and I had some thoughts.
The problem is, in order for the search to turn up any results, the pages on your site have to be indexed by Google. On frequently updated pages there could be days or weeks of content that Google doesn't find/know about/index.
Rather than ditching the Google search all together and sticking with your standard Blog or Content Management System you might try doing a hybrid... like
pull the $_GET['q'] from the search landing page and do a quick CMS/Blog /database search from recent pages/entries which probably aren't indexed yet.
If something turns up stick it in a <div></div> above the Google results
next you may want to add those queries to a database along with a counter/timestamp to:
- help find related keyword niches you may have missed
- maybe a popular or 'other people found helpful' search list
- better customer insight
- build a some popular keyword rich dynamic links for the rest of your site
- which, may lead Google to index those pages
if the search term popular enough it may need its own mod rewrite to be appended to the .htaccess file -ohhh dynamic
anyway -just some quick thoughts
cheers- tim
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