Google adsense is one of the best contextual advertisement program for bloggers. It never lets your blog run out of advertisement. Google allow lots of ad unit to integrate in your blog. You can see my previous post on Maximum number of adsense ad unit on a single page. Though later on Google adsense dumped the video unit.
Few days back we talked about how you can improve adsense revenue using adsense for rss feeds. Another good way to increase your adsense revenue by adding adsense for search unit.
Using adsense for search unit help you to add search box in your blog and also help you to add extra revenue in your pocket. If you have a blog with 1000 of posts ,adsense search box will be very handy for you.
Here are the screenshot which will easily help you to understand how to create Google custom code adsense unit
Login to your Google adsense account and Click on adsense set up
Click on adsense for search option
On the next page, Edit your setting, see screenshot for more detail
Click on continue and in the next box select the search box style and length you want to use into your blog.
Click on continue and in the next box,
You can select various options like where do you want your search window to be open. You can also create a new page on your wordpress blog and use it to show search result.
you can make changes like ad placement and ad colors. After making those changes. Click continue and copy your adsense search unit code and place at appropriate place in your blogspot or wordpress blog.
A sample adsense search unit code will look like this.
<form action="http://www.google.com/cse" id="cse-search-box" target="_blank"> <div> <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="partner-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" /> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="ISO-8859-1" /> <input type="text" name="q" size="26" /> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" /> </div> </form> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en"></script>
I hope this tutorial will help you to easily create adsense for search unit.
Don’t forget to read my previous tutorial on
- 10 simple mistakes to avoid violating Google adsense policies
- Improve your adsense earning using adsense section targeting
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Can i use custom search with the built in search box of blogger template ?
I guess yes! You can!
I tried this adsense search before and had a page up on my blog, but eventually I took the page down. I could see no one used it besides myself.
Thanks for the info, very detailed post.
Adsense for search box does great when you have lots of posts and lots of readers are following you from long. They will prefer to look back into your post using it.
Well the adsense for search unit are not very effective but still a great way to solve two purpose.
# Search box for users
# Monetization
About my previous commnet:
I never put in my twitter name and it somehow populated it by itself. Is that right? Maybe it took my username from a previous comment I submitted.
My twitter account is still suspended.
I have not used custom search on my tech blog yet. Thinking to add it on this weekend.
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Even I added it late and I believe it’s a good idea to add it because it will be useful in both the ways.
User experience and monetization.
Maybe I will try it again, but for now I’m working on other big projects to get some kind of income.
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Have not started using adsense or any other ads for that matter!
You write great stuff! Keep up the good work!
Cheers
Sandeep
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Thanks for your comment Sandeep
Though I will suggest its a good idea to start with moderate advertising in the begining. If you are not monetizing your blog now, you are missing a part of income which belong to you.
Harsh, I have setup the code, but didn’t paste it.
Basically, what i want is when a user searches and hits enter, I want the same theme layout but without sidebar. Meaning full page wide google search results. How to achieve that?
Any idea?
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Yes Nihar
That can be easily done
You need to create a new page and name it as yourdomain.com/search
In the last step where you are getting an option to select how you want page to open, you can use custom page and enter your Page URL
That will help. If not I will write a new post for the same.
I used the adsense search box on a few of my sites, but like one of the commenter’s above, hardly anybody used it so I took it down.
Informative post though
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Does anyone know how to get this to work with wordpress? It seems impossible to do anything with wordpress without either knowing PHP or waiting around for someone to build you a plugin. Any links appreciated!
i WANT TO USE CUSTOM SEARCH RESULS open on my own page.How to do?
not working as google adsense gives two pieces of codes one of search widget and other for search result page which will appear showing search results,how to use these two codes????
Hey just one query.Where i should paste code which is for search page. I have made a page and added to it but nothing works. Could you please add these points in this post as update.