Mark McLaren is a Web Analytics Association Member 2007
Mark McLaren is a Web Analytics Association Member

New Google Site Search For Small Businesses

Google recently introduced a new paid version of its Site Search for Small Businesses. It has a number of advantages over the free service, the most obvious of which is the fact that there will be no advertisements next to search results. You can also customize search results so that the pages you want to show up at the top of the results are given more weight than other pages.

For more, see Google Enterprise: Google Custom Search Business Edition (CSBE) and the Google Custom Search Help Center — and these articles for an overview:

(If you only have time to read one, read the eWeek article.)

Google Launches Hosted Website Search for SMBs
eWeek.com

Google Offers to Run Site Search Engines
washingtonpost.com

It’s just a hunch, but using this service could also improve the site’s performance in standard, external Google searches.

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