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Google Custom Search Insted Of Default Search Function on WordPress?

excerpt I have decided to play around with Google Custom Search. Now you can find pages and documents on this domain using the big “G”. Since this website is powered by WordPress, many who read this post will wonder why? Do I trust Google more? The answer to this question is ye ...

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    Chris 3 months ago with 1 point

    Having Google's name on your site might help with credibility. Trying it and watching your bounce rate and/or click path would be interesting. Since all the pages from either search path are dynamically generated they're not sitting around for any of the spiders to index, so there's not likely to be a duplicate content issue. That's assuming you've done the basic SEO things to your wordpress blog, like no-follow the appropriate categories and archives, and 301 the other linking structures.

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    Vlad Zablotskyy 3 months ago with 1 point

    Chris,

    A dummy here when it comes to programing.I diid have a theme (and I believe it was theme's fault) with which I had hundreds of these urls indexed.

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    Big Guy John 2 months ago with 1 point

    I just start to learn AJAX, but I had some cross browser problems, especially for IE6. Do you use any libraries, like Prototype, JQuery ..?

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    Vlad Zablotskyy 2 months ago with 1 point

    I just used the code provided by Google. But as can see I have removed it from my site precisely due to the problems you have mentioned. IE being the #1 issue.

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    porch lifts 2 months ago with 1 point

    You bring up an interesting point about the default search and duplicate content. I am going to have to do some research on this because I use wordpress extensively and have never given the search much thought. Thanks!!!

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    Vlad Zablotskyy 2 months ago with 1 point

    I just was to your website in hopes to learn your real name.... No luck, so for now I will just call you "porch lift" ;)

    Anyway, the duplication you are referring to is not a huge problem. You just need to to check if the theme has any sort of "popular searches" integrated. That is the only way those urls will be indexed. See Chris' comments above on the subject.

    Thanks for stopping by. Hope to learn your name one day. ;)

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