Adsense for search?

[michaelbs]

Just wondered if anyone had seen any good results with the adsense for search box?

Mike

[swoop]

No good luck here. I tried it for awhile, then got rid of it to run just ads.

[kodaks]

I use it, and I get around 40% more money on regular Adsense ads than Adsense search. I'd recommend you try it out, I have heard that it works better for some than others.

[suidas]

I've be interested to know for what sites it works. I tried it on part of my site and it completely bombed--maybe 5% of what the ads get. It's so low that although I could easily add it to other pages, I'm not sure it's worth the time. That's low.

This is particularly low considering that I don't make much money off Adsense either. I get a lot of visitors, but my content is informational and educational. People do not arrive wanting to buy something.

Part of the problem is actually that people don't use the feature. This is probably a good sign--they like my content. The click-through rates are higher than for my ads. Still, it doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

[martingale]

I ran it for awhile and them removed it because it doesn't earn any money. I have put back my own search tool now, which earns me much more mone from the ads that run on my results page.

However.. I have been thinking of putting AdSense search on my search *results* page, with a message, "Didn't fidn what you were looking for? Search the web with google" or some such.

If they didn't find what they wanted in my search maybe their next step was to click their google bookmark anyway, so the pittance I'd get from AdSense search in that case probably compares favourable with them clicking their google bookmark.

Dunno. Haven't tried that yet.

[david_uk]

I get pennies from it. I used the Google site search before, so the site layout hasn't been altered - I just get a few extra pence per month. If I wasn't going to use the G search tool anyway I'd remove it.

[jenkers]

I use it since it was brought in and have continued to do so.

It tends to generate a higher CTR and eCPM but much lower cash per click (although this seems to have got higher recently).

In all it generates about 3% of total adsense income for the site it is on - but this easily pays for the hosting.

But I have the search box at the very bottom of each page as I like having the search functionality but I don't want it to be the first thing people see.

If it were right at the top I suspect the earnings might border on the respectable (but would detract from the higher paying adsense ads on my pages).

[jenkers]

oops - above should be made clear that it generates approx 3% of the adsense income on my site - not sites in general where the levels will probably vary as wildly as they do for the normal ads.

[europeforvisitors]

I've be interested to know for what sites it works.

The AdSense for Search CPM is extremely high on my editorial travel-planning site. Unfortunately, very few of my readers use internal search, so total earnings are a fraction of what I get from content ads.

By the way, this topic has been discussed extensively in several other threads.