Insalling Google site-search on my Website.

[techok]

I copied and pasted the html for google's site-search onto the home page of my website and it works fine but only for that page (the Google www search works fine also.)
It will not search other pages at my website even if I paste the html onto those other pages while editing my website. What's wrong? My website is hosted by Homestead.com.
I would like for the Google site-search to search ALL the pages (and forums) on my site. What should I do?
ALSO, I want to have the Gogle site-search window show up on other pages of my website, not just on the homepage. i suppose i have to edit it onto those other pages in order to accomplish this. Thankyou in advance for any help.

[Stefan]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, techok.

This might help:

[google.com...]

3. Google Free site search doesn't appear to have indexed all the pages on my site. Why?

There are a number of reasons a page might not appear in the results of your Google Free site search. It could be that Google hasn't crawled that particular page yet. Google refreshes its index of more than 3 billion pages frequently, but some pages are inevitably missed.

I haven't used it myself, but I believe that it will only enable Google to show your pages that have already been indexed by Google. If your index.htm is the only one that Google has found so far, that will be the only one that will show in the search. With time, more of the pages will be added to Google, and then more will show in your site search.

If any other WW members are familar with this, and know that I'm wrong, (I never used it, just read about it), could you please post a correction?

Jah guide
Stefan

[techok]

Thanks Stephan. I want to add discussion forums to my site
and enable users to search the forums (as well as the site's pages) using Google's site-search, but if Google is only going to crawl the pages periodically, then I guess it won't be very effective, since new text is added to forums constantly. Would placing the forums all on the index page solve this, were the index page able to handle that much content? I haven't referenced my site to any search engines yet so it probably HASN'T been thoroughly crawled yet.
It may be a mute point, to a degree, as most discussion forum programs come with a search feature, which I could use for the forums.
Does anybody know of any decent free (or cheap) discussion forum programs?

[techok]

Actually, sorry, my last question was a bit off-topic. I have found some discussion threads on discussion forum software elsewhere on this site. Just do a search on 'discussion forums'...

[jim_w]

I use the G search for a while, but I didn’t like the output of the results.

Believe it or not, there are other alternatives to G. I don’t have any affiliation with these people other than I use their free services. I was using all of their free services, but now I only use the custom news and the search because I didn’t think any bots crawled their message boards. I was using their watchdog, but since, knock on wood, my hosting service is up more than 99.99997% of the time, it was a waste of BW.

h**p://www.master.com/texis/master/app/apps.html

[Ossie40]

I've been using Atomz's search tool for my site for the past three years. They crawl the site each week, plus I can manually force a new crawl if I choose. It is free up to 500 pages.