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shaneekirk
07-10-2008, 08:10 PM
So, I was doing a search today, and I noticed a company that had a normal organic listing, then under the listing navigational elements that went to deeper links and a search bar that would search their site.

How did this appear in their listings?? I want to know how to leverage some of this for a client of mine...

I tried to upload an image. Search google for "ASTM" and you'll see the listing.

Thanks.
shaneekirk
07-10-2008, 08:29 PM
Ok. I found another one for LibMesh site.
PetsMart is like that too and has a + arrow for the stock price.

Are these things that you can opt in to?
jimbeetle
07-11-2008, 10:42 AM
Those are Google's Sitelinks (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334&query=sitelinks&topic=&type=). They're algorithmically determined and you can see what Sitelinks a site has if you have a Webmaster Tools account.

The site search box (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=92184&query=search+box&topic=&type=) appears when Google determines "that it would be useful to our users," whatever the heck that means.
JohnW
07-11-2008, 03:10 PM
>The site search box appears when Google determines "that it would be useful to our users,"

I think that means it would be helpful to users to stay on a Google search page as long as possible, so they can benefit from seeing more ads ;-)
SEOMalc
07-17-2008, 10:08 AM
The crappest thing is that it's not even a search on the site. It's a search through Google's indexed pages.

Often with AdWords, sitelinks and the pointless search box there are only 2 or 2 and a half natural results above the fold.

SEOMalc.
jimbeetle
07-17-2008, 11:37 AM
The crappest thing is that it's not even a search on the site. It's a search through Google's indexed pages.
What else would you expect it to be?
SEOMalc
07-17-2008, 11:50 AM
I would rather it was just whitespace :P

I just think it is a crap addition as non-technical users think it is a site search box like you would find in the top right of 90% of sites.

"search ????.???" is a bit misleading. It should be "search pages of ????.??? that Google has in it's index". Actually it shouldn't as that would be one hell of a button and would probably lead to 1.5 natural results before the fold.

I wonder if anyone user has ever found it useful ?