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Same as before you see everything once you login and agree to terms.
Anxiously awaiting Jenstar's recap ;)
just give me the url on adsense site where fees were mentioned....
If you go to "products", you can change your text/text and image ads choices, but it doesn't seem possibile to UNsubscribe from WebSearch
will they charge fees based on you actually using the service or just on the fact that you activated it at the beginning.
the fees thing and the inability to have other search on the site makes this a non-starter for me.
What I would like to see:
1. Ability to Pre-Fill search box without violating the TOS.
2. Different sized search layouts, or the ability to modify the form code. The version now is just way too big.
I have already emailed G directly asking about pre-filling.
I echo the mystery "fees" worry as well.
can any body tell me the meaning of this sentence?
For instance, when I checked my stats before I could see the totals for all stats at a glance, including any channels. If I wanted to see the channel stats separately I could then use the channels radion button and select the appropriate options.
and even if I don't have what they're looking for ("No results found"), I can still make some money from them when they click off my site via an ad. :)
Good point, you get that in addition to 'the other clicks'
where are people getting this idea of fees from?
RonPK:
check the WebSearch report page, at the bottom
Google WebSearch faq [google.com...]
The program is free
Okay, so I'm a bit confused here. Don't know if I'm right, but I read into RonPK's reply that you have to first subscribe to WebSearch to see any mention of "Fees."
Is that so? What does it say about these mysterious "fees?" Is there a conflict with the faq?
Am I a bit too muddle-headed this morning or is this another poorly executed Google product launch?
Maybe another cup of coffee will help.
"Revenue from WebSearch ads may be offset at the end of the month by fees applicable to WebSearch"
can any body tell me the meaning of this sentence?
As far as I can tell, no one has yet been able to explain this highly confusing sentence. Jenstar? AdsenseAdvisor?
I doubt if they'll start charging for Sitesearch any time soon, though--not when they need to stave off search competition from Yahoo and Microsoft, and not when they're making money from it by displaying AdWords on the SERPs.
Still, they might figure that, in cases where they split ad revenues with the publisher, as they do with AdSense Search, they can justify charging for Sitesearch. But I'd guess that they'd simply build such charges into the payout scheme for SiteSearch, and that the wording in the TOS is a way to protect themselves against allegations of hidden fees.
If you send a lot of traffic that doesn't convert and just uses Google Search capability then they may want the charge you for that..
It clearly states "There’s no cost to participate, and it’s easy to get started."
A bit of contradictory from what it says on the login page.
edit....doh....can't use form id had to change to div id....goes to get his coffee:)Problem recsolved now.
When I pasted the code in, it didn't look anything like the example on the script generator page that says, "Your search box will look like this". I changed it to look EXACTLY like theirs visually, but it changes the tables....is that a bad?
I am sure they have been bombarded with emails, but I still sent them one to cover my bases and requested a quick review to be sure I am not breaking TOS.
Has anyone seen and stats for their searches yet?
The best answer would be for a quick introduction of new formats.
I can't believe no one thought of preparing several formats ahead of time. I know it took them a while to provide different look and feels {palletes} for the ads, but knowing that publishers where going to ask for options is a no-brainer.
I'm just frustrated other search box style/color options aren't available from the get go.
Having a site with a black background there is no way at present I see myself being able to place this slab of white search box. I'm just frustrated other search box style/color options aren't available from the get go.
I'm using a simple, effective solution: a "search" link that takes the user to a search page. This requires one extra click for the user, but it has several advantages (especially when dealing with audiences that may not be Web-savvy):
1) It allows a brief text introduction;
2) It avoids the need for displaying Google's logo on my pages;
3) It allows me to place search high in the left-hand navigation bar without having a search-box script mess up the layout.
More formats would be nice, and I expect that Google will offer them at some point. But in the meantime, a simple "Search" text link works just fine.
When I get around to it, I'll probably put the Google box on a few key pages and put a text link to a search page on all others.
"The search box has to be placed on a page with content related to your site."
I know it is a pretty vague term. How much content does Google considered acceptable?
edit/ Lipik types faster than me.
What is extremely interesting is that through the hits on your logo you can tell the strings (keywords) that people are searching for from your log files.
From this you can compile a list of what people searched for on the site but didn't find (and if you have time) add pages on this subject increasing Pagerank etc.
Anyway - just a few small thoughts - to me the above is more useful than the advertising revenue....
just got lightning and thunder here... :P
My site is mostly articles and links pages related to a fairly small content niche, and on the site index page I simply list them all alphabetically, linked. Definitely content related to my site.... (and a very handy complement to the search box)
Thumbs up or thumbs down? Maybe I better email the AdSense folks.
My latest implementation of the search page includes a table of contents with links to the main menus of my site. So having a separate search page (rather than a search box on every page) allows me to provide the equivalent of a top-level site map for my main site and my "sites within the site."
BTW, it's easy to see why Google requires that the search box be on a page that contains other content related to one's site. If there were no such requirement, we'd see massive sites that consisted of nothing but keywords and search boxes.
