You can start showing AdSense for Search results within your own site instead of visitors being navigated away from your site to a Goggle landing page.
AdSense Setup >
Opening of search results page
Choose whether you would like your search results to open on Google or within your site.
The search results appear within an IFRAME.
There are a number of free tools that help you create a Google sitemap:
Google Sitemap Generator made with Java!
Google Sitemap Generator made with a Python script
Open Source Sitemap Script
Google Sitemap Generator and Editor
Google Sitemap Generator for Windows
Google Sitemap Generator Dreamweaver Extension
Arne Brachhold’s WordPress plugin creates a new XML sitemap for your WordPress blog. The donation ware plug-in makes it simple to generate a sitemap. A few minutes invested in creating a sitemap could make a significant difference in your blog’s rank, positioning and traffic.
The will work for both excluding the and the from displaying in the Google results.
By adding <meta NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOODP”> or <meta NAME=”googlebot” CONTENT=”NOODP”> you can tell Google not to use the ODP title and description in the results.
Recently there has been some concern at various forums about the use of (DMOZ.org) web page descriptions by some search engines as the default description used in the search engine result page listings. Simply put, if your web page is listed in ODP, the search engine may choose to use the description of that listing in its results, since they were approved by a human and are most likely accurate.
The problem is that many people have ODP listings that are outdated, and therefore do not match up nicely with the new page content. ODP is notoriously slow in responding to requests by webmasters to modify listings, so the idea came about to create a new snippet of code that would direct search engine spiders to not use the ODP description when indexing a page.
Here’s some tips to control ’s indexing.
1. At a site or directory level, use .htaccess to add password protection.
2. At a site or directory level, use the robots.txt file.
3. At a page level, use the noindex tag.
4. At a link level, use a nofollow attribute.
5. If the content has already been crawled, use the Google url removal tool.
Ask Search Blogs is cool.
Ask owns Bloglines, my primary . Bloglines is currently indexing over 1.5 billion archived posts – searching for what people subscribe to. So instead of using net crawlers to discover links, the Bloglines subscriber indexing efforts should eventually generate more useful results than other blog/feed search sites.
The results page allows you to subscribe to the feed or post to sites like digg and del.icio.us.
[tags]search engines[/tags]
WSJ article about companies that are challenging Google.
Internet companies, locked in a fierce battle to get more people to use their search engines, are dangling rewards and cash prizes to attract customers to their sites.
The incentives vary from shot-in-the-dark sweepstakes for luxury-hotel stays and pricey plasma TVs to loyalty programs that offer guaranteed rewards and payouts to those who qualify, similar to those found in the airline and credit-card industries. While the odds of winning big may be slim, the hope is that some regular incentives may persuade some consumers to stop using Google as a starting point for every Internet search.
| WEB SITE | HOW IT WORKS | COMMENT |
| Msnsearchandwin.com | Users who search for randomly selected keywords can win prizes ranging from a plasma TV to a gift certificate. | The list of some 1,000 potential prize-winning terms rotates regularly. |
| Blingo.com | The site awards roughly 50 prizes a day to those who conduct a search closest to randomly selected times. | Users who refer a friend to the site are entered in a prize-sharing program that rewards them with any prize their friend happens to win. |
| A9.com | After registering and a few days of regular use, A9 searchers are eligible for a 1.57% discount on most Amazon purchases. | Participants must be logged into their account to earn the discount, which cannot be applied to gift card purchases. |
| GoodSearch.com | The user selects a charity or school that will be awarded roughly a penny for each search he conducts. | Users can request to have any legitimate charity or school entered in the system. |
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