Adsense for Search

[jmaresca2005]

I was tring to create new channels in adsense for search and was unable too because there is a 30 charater limit. I have my top level domain as the channel with search boxes on all my pages. Will Google be able to track all queries from all pages with just the doamin name as a channel. or should i just have the search box on the home page?

[jcmiras]

Me too, I have a question about Google Adsense for sitesearch. Can i earn money if the user search the web using my sightsearch and click the ad there OR only if they search within my website? And what does this mean,
"Please note that adding SiteSearch to any page will not queue that page for crawling by our bots. "
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[jcmiras]

Additional question. Can I include a domain that i do not own in the sightsearch? Say domain of my competitor.

[AdSenseAdvisor]

I’ll be happy to help both of you with your AdSense for search questions.

First, jmaresca2005, AdSense for search uses custom channels rather than URL channels. This means that you can name your channels anything, not just the domain name. I recommend giving them names relating to the specific pages you are tracking, so you can remember where you placed them.

Also, custom channels track your page performance through the actual AdSense for search code. So you’ll have to re-paste your AdSense for search code into your page after you have created a new channel.

For more information about channels, you can visit:

[google.com ].

Jcmiras, if you have included an AdSense for search bar on your page, you’ll be paid for clicks to ads appearing next to all search results generated from your page – including both SiteSearch and Web search results.

Also, you asked about the following statement:

Please note that adding SiteSearch to any page will not queue that page for crawling by our bots.

This means that adding SiteSearch to one of your pages does not necessarily mean our crawlers will index the content of that page. If a page hasn’t been indexed, the SiteSearch function may not return any results.

I hope this answers each of your questions.

-ASA

[jcmiras]

Thanks A lot. I think Google has to re-state this statement,

"Please note that adding SiteSearch to any page will not queue that page for crawling by our bots"

My first understanding there is that if you put a sitesearch on a particular page, Google will not anymore index that page.