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How to Use the Google Custom Search Engine with Squidoo
Although not a part of Google Apps for your Domain, the Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) adds a powerful capability to any group of lenses.
The Custom Search Engine enables visitors to search all my related lenses by keyword or phrase using Google Search. Fast. Accurate. And ties all the lenses together into an actual web site.
Google's Custom Search Engine is a great complement to Google Apps.
This 11-chapter ebook describes the basic concepts behind building professional-looking multi-lens projects -- ebooks, extended tutorials, department stores, shopping malls, and more -- using Squidoo and Google Apps for your Domain.
Check out these web sites: SuperchargeSquidoo.com and FirstTimeInLasVegas.com
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Here's How I Use the Google Custom Search Engine with Squidoo
All you need is a Google Account to create a custom search engine. Sign in, and fill in the blanks on the screen. Most importantly, you can enter the specific URLs (web site addresses) you want Google to search, when someone enters a keyword or phrase.
Just list all the Squidoo lens names, one per line. Save the selections. CSE generates HTML code automatically. Just copy and paste into any web page.
I set up a second web page using Page Creator, and make that my Custom Search page.
Enter a keyword like 'Wynn' and Google searches across all the related lenses in the Sin City Travel Guide Series and the Sin City Rolodex Series.
This one capability -- search -- turns the web page and related lenses into a real web site.
Other Options for Placing Google Custom Search Links in Lenses
Instead, I place links -- see 2 examples below -- in the modules that go to my custom search page, which was built using Page Creator in Google Apps.
Custom Search Link in the Introduction Module.
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Custom Search Link in a Write Module.
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ALSO: With these Supercharge Squidoo lenses, I've incorporated the CSE link into the navigation bars in the first and last modules of each lens.
Master Google Custom Search with FREE Resources from Google
Stay Current with Google Custom Search Engine Developments
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Ideas for Using Google Custom Search Engine
- How Salesforce.com uses Google Custom Search
- September 17, 2007 -- Google's Enterprise Blog features a video interview with Adam Gross, Salesforce.com's VP of Developer Relations, about providing search across 'a large number of disparate websites'.
- Google Custom Search: Setting The Bar For Vertical Search Engines
- September 6, 2007 -- A good primer from Read/WriteWeb covering the what, how and why of Google Custom Search.
- Creating Google Custom Search Engines
- September 6, 2007 -- Informal tutorial at O'Reilly ONLamp.com for setting up a Google Custom Search Engine.
- You Can Search this Blog
- Aug 10, 2007 -- Squidoo founder Seth Godin blogging about the value of custom search.
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great resources! I'll feature this on the Squidoo group - thanks for submitting Posted August 11, 2007 |
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