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How to Use the Google Custom Search Engine with Squidoo

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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 

The Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) could be the single most powerful tool Google offers.

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 

So far, I can NOT get any of the search engine code to run in a Squidoo module.

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.

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Custom Search Bonus Links 

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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    seoprofessional seoprofessional Jul 6, 2009 @ 5:09 am
    Excellent content - as you always provide and inspires me to come again and again. You are on my RSS reader now.
    By the way, there is one more valuable resource I'd like to share with others readers. It's about getting No #1 ranking for any Keyword on Google, Yahoo and MSN search engine almost instantly.
    I won't waste any of your time because this is absolutely mind-blowing:

    http://www.squidoo.com/Social-Media-Optimization-Services-India

    I have no idea how these guys accomplished this...

    http://www.wildnettechnologies.com
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    PerformancePartSearch PerformancePartSearch Jun 4, 2009 @ 4:07 pm
    If you are including more than 3 domains into your CSE, you should be aware of severe limitations of Google CSE. You could read this article on Squidoo (my case study for using Google CSE for building an Automotive Performance Parts Search Engine):

    http://www.squidoo.com/performance-parts-tuning
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    webxalpha webxalpha Jan 12, 2009 @ 12:25 am
    Awesome resource. I've actually programmed a resource that takes the top searches from Google, and places them into an RSS feed. Please let me know what you think at Google Search RSS
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    GHouse GHouse Dec 7, 2008 @ 1:57 am
    Hi!! Just come to see your nice lens. I did my travel lens too. It's about my hotel in hua hin Thailand. Hua Hin is a charming town of clean white sandy beach. If you come to Thailand, please visit us.
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    Pixelrage Pixelrage Aug 11, 2007 @ 11:48 am
    great resources! I'll feature this on the Squidoo group - thanks for submitting
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