AdSense for Search Results on Your Own Site
JenSense has the scoop on a new feature on AdSense for Search that allows you to open the search results on your own page instead of a page at Google.
This will be great for publishers who weren’t using AdSense for search because they didn’t want to send traffic off their own sites.
Google has a help page with the implementation details.
Randy Charles Morin Said,
August 16, 2006 @ 2:49 am
Just one problem. Since Big Daddy, site search is broken.
Toivo Lainevool Said,
August 16, 2006 @ 12:25 pm
I’m not sure what you mean by “broken”. It seems to work fine on the sites I have it on.
I guess one possibility is if you had a lot of pages de-indexed during Big Daddy, the will not show up during site search.
Randy Charles Morin Said,
August 16, 2006 @ 1:16 pm
Toivo, have you checked what percentage of your blog pages are indexed? For instance, my blog using sitemap, I was able to get 100% into the Google index pre-Big Daddy. That same blog is now only 90% indexed, because Big Daddy kicked 10% out because they were low value pages. There4, when using site search, you only get 90% of the results too. That’s broken.
Toivo Lainevool Said,
August 16, 2006 @ 1:24 pm
Thanks for the explanation, Randy.
My blog pages seem to be indexed fine. When I do a query for “site:www.admoolah.com inurl:blog” I get 330 results. I have 197 blog entries, so that seems like a good number!
Randy Charles Morin Said,
August 16, 2006 @ 7:27 pm
Toivo, do you have a sitemap?
Randy Charles Morin Said,
August 16, 2006 @ 7:37 pm
Here’s a simple test. I generated a sitemap for your blog using Explorer to Sitemap. This sitemap will be incomplete.
http://www.kbcafe.com/adwords/?guid=20060719220912
It found 342 webpages.
I then ran that sitemap thru Sitemap Analyzer.
http://www.kbcafe.com/adwords/?guid=20060529152659
It found 130 of the 342 webpages were missing from Google’s index. That’s broken.
Toivo Lainevool Said,
August 17, 2006 @ 2:10 am
Interesting tools, Randy, but to me it looks like the Sitemap Analyzer doesn’t work. For example it displayed that http://www.admoolah.com/blog/index.php/2005/07/adsense-help-for-forum-publishers didn’t show up. But this URL is indexed by Google. Doing a Google search for it does list it: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=site%3Awww.admoolah.com+inurl%3Ablog+adsense-help-for-forum-publishers&btnG=Search
Maybe it’s because there is a “/” at the end of the Google result?
Looking at what Yahoo indexes and Google doesn’t it seems like what was missing from Google was mostly trackback and feed pages. Google doesn’t seem to index those, which is fine. All the real post pages seem to be indexed.
Randy Charles Morin Said,
August 17, 2006 @ 2:49 am
The Sitemap Analyzer will not necessarily hit the same Google cluster as a regular websearch, so results will vary. In fact, back to back searches can generate varying results also. It’s also possible that you are fully indexed, but that’s not the norm since Big Daddy.