When you search for a site like Stack Overflow on Google, the result that comes up includes its own search bar for searching that particular site. It appears below the description of the site like this:
How do I make this search area appear inside the Google result of our sites ?
You don't have much control over that:
"The Sitelinks search box appears only for navigational queries and
when relevant for users. Google algorithms use a variety of factors to
determine when the box appears, including the information on the site
and different types of navigational queries from Search users."
https://developers.google.com/structured-data/slsb-overview
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When my website is Googled, I want a search bar for the site to appear in the results, like this:
To be clear, I'm referring to the search bar with the placeholder text "Results from stackoverflow.com", right above the "Careers" and "Java" links.
The results for my website have an identical layout, except that there is no search bar.
How can I achieve a search bar in the results?
**I'm not sure this can be accomplished through altering my source code, so this question may not even belong on StackOverflow. If that is the case, feel free to migrate the question to whichever SE site in which it belongs.
I don't have enough rep to put this in a comment, but i would just like to post this.
Quoting the blog post from google:
How can I mark up my site?
You need to have a working site-specific search engine for your site. If you already have one, you can let us know by marking up your homepage as a schema.org/WebSite entity with the potentialAction property of the schema.org/SearchAction markup. You can use JSON-LD, microdata, or RDFa to do this; check out the full implementation details on our developer site.
If you implement the markup on your site, users will have the ability to jump directly from the sitelinks search box to your site’s search results page. If we don’t find any markup, we’ll show them a Google search results page for the corresponding site: query, as we’ve done until now.
As always, if you have questions, feel free to ask in our Webmaster Help forum.
Can I show custom field info. on Search Engine Pages?
For example, when I type the keyword "google" on Google Search Engine, along with the regular search results, I also get some more information such as CEO, Founded, Headquarters, Founder, etc.. on the right sidebar, similar to the below image.
And I wondered if I could ever show up my company information also like that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Yes, if you have a website accessible by Google's indexing bots and your page(s) contain Structured Data Markup providing such info, more specifically by Customizing the Knowledge Graph for your company (and provided that Google's indexing service considers the info relevant enough to show up in search results, of course).
I am getting some strange (to me) results when using Google CSE on my site.
Background:
The site has a MAIN search field (Google CSE #1 we'll call it).. that was set up in the Google CSE admin panel.. and set to be a site wide search.
I recently added a page that will be the front end search for a directory of PDF's.
I went back to Google CSE admin page.. made a NEW entry for this PDF sub-directory..
pointed to only this directory and its child/sub-directories..
set it to ONLY return .pdf results..
outside of these two differences, both CSE accounts/entries are set-up identical.
The problem or question I have is..
the 'results' pages (while have the same exact settings, search field on top of results, full row...single page..etc)..are different a bit.
the 'new' page results has a tan colored 'ad block' on top of the results..
and 'more importantly' the results page SEARCH field itself looks different, and the SEARCH BUTTON itself looks different, and has an 'x' (close/clear) button right after it
if the settings are the same,.. how am I getting different looks? if only PDF file type or confined to a sub-directory for indexing/searching are different?.. do those settings somehow give different looking elements like that?
the new page SEARCH/SUBMIT button also have a magnifying glass on it. where original one has search text..
I didnt see anything in the "Look and Feel" section of the admin pages
what is affecting the different looks?
answer: choosing hide ads or not under the BUSINESS section in Google CSE admin page changes the 'looks' of the search field & submit button...
why that should affect the visual results, I have no clue.
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How can I get a search box like this listed for my website?
You can't choose what todo with these links it's under Google controls, more info here
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/search-within-site-tale-of.html
This feature will now occur when we detect a high probability that a user wants more refined search results within a specific site.
Essentially, you can't. This is only likely to occur on high-traffic sites with usage cases that lend themselves to this sort of search-within-search.
Looking through my search logs from time to time, I notice that by far the biggest user of my search engine is the google-bot. What gives? Is it looking for content that might not be directly accessible through navigation? If so, how does it know which words and phrases to look for (they're surprisingly relevant). Does it check the most popular keywords on the site? I know I seem to be answering my own question here, but this is really only working it out from first principles. I'd like to hear from someone who knows what they're talking about (i.e. not me).
If your search form's method is get instead of post, each search has its own url, and people might be posting those urls elsewhere. Or if you have a (possibly inadvertently) publicly accessible webstats page that listed those urls, that's another common way for search engines to stumble upon your internal search urls. A third way I've seen is sites that list recent searches on their pages, but this is more intentional. "MySQL Performance Blog" does this to an annoying extent, so any search of their site from google yields hundreds of pages of similar searches, even if none of them found what they were looking for.
Edit: Looks like it does on occasion, but only GET forms:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/crawling-through-html-forms.html
Google will use words that occur on your site in search boxes to try to find pages that it can't otherwise.
Google says that for the past few months, it has been filling in forms
on a "small number" of "high-quality" web sites to get back
information. What words has it been entering into those forms? Words
automatically selected that occur on the site, with check boxes and
drop-down menus also being selected.
http://searchengineland.com/google-now-fills-out-forms-crawls-results-13760