Using Google Custom Search Business

Our understanding is that the custom search engine uses the same index that is part of Google. So a page must be indexed and searchable on Google.com to also be part of the results of your custom search engine. So make sure that Google is building a good index of your store pages.

The approach to getting your store properly index is always the same: use the store map, sitemap, and lots of Well-designed, text-rich static pages to link to your catalog. Consider using the SEO files too.

The custom Google search engine does allow you to set up additional filters to exclude portions of the indexed docoments. As far as we know, it does not allow you to "add" content. It's a subset of the Google index. You can only limit the results shown, not add to them.

We recently added to our Web site, and we believe it is working quite well. For example, you can now do a search that will include results from several different dynamic applications that you previously could not search at once. Specifically: Web pages, forum threads, Knowledge Base articles.

Just a note on the search results on our Web site: when you do a search on our Early Impact Web site using the custom Google search form, you will not see results from the ProductCart-powered demo stores. The reason is that they are not getting indexed on our Web site because we tell search engines to ignore them via "robots.txt"

Hi Massimo

Your blog is great, I would never of found it except for this forum. It needs to be easier found