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May 4, 2006 9:12 AM
   

Get Yahoo! Search on Your Sites
Employing a Yahoo! Search box allows your users to find exactly what they’re looking for, quickly and easily. The Yahoo! Search Box in the right-hand column of this blog is one of four configurations, all of which you can deploy easily on your own site. Each configuration is designed to meet your spatial needs – according to the layout of your site – and your specific search needs.

 

Some publishers need site search as well as Web search, while others only need a way to allow their users a convenient way to search the Web from their site. Yahoo! offers two layout options for each search type:

 

 

Style 1: This box is ideal if you just want a basic Web search that fits well into a header or footer. 

 

 

 

Style 2: Also good for headers and footers, this box offers Web and site search.

 

Style 3: This box works well in margins.

 

 

 

Style 4: Also good for margins, this box offers Web and site search.

 

Adding Yahoo! Search to your site is even easier than adding Yahoo! Publisher Network ads. You don’t have register or be a Yahoo! account owner. Simply go to the Add Yahoo! Search page, choose the search option that best fits your needs, and copy and paste the code provided into your own site:

 

 

 

Placement Tip

You’ll notice that on our blog, the search box is placed in the upper right-hand margin. It has become a Web usability convention that search functionality is placed in the upper right, above the fold. This is our recommendation, but publishers are free to place search boxes anywhere they see fit.

 

More on the Way

There are things afoot in the Yahoo! Search world that we can’t devulge fully just yet. But look for significant improvements in Yahoo! Search Box options and features sooner rather than later.

 

Currently, the Search Box is not monetized, but is a useful add-on to your site. Yahoo! is working hard on a monetization solution for Search, however, which you can expect to see in the not-to-distant future. Be sure to stay tuned to the blog for the latest updates.
 

 

– The Team

 

 

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6 Responses to “Think Inside the Box”

  1. artist123 Says:
    May 4th, 2006 at 10:41 am

    How do I get to post the Publisher Network ads on our site? I’ve signed up for the beta program but never have received a response. I realize Yahoo is just getting started with much of this, but I sure would like to get the ads placed so I can round out the site. I’m going with the Yahoo brand all the way. Thank you for a response.

  2. Gary R. Hess Says:
    May 4th, 2006 at 11:35 am

    OK, first, you don’t say where we can get the code for the search box. Second, will we get paid to use it like adsense search? And thirdly, artist123, they will send you a response ASAP. They get tons of requests and they must look over every single request to make sure it’s the type of site they want. And size of the site, amount of visitors, type of visitors, etc. is what they look at including what type of site it is.

    Took me about 2 weeks, but this was way back when it just started (last september), so I was ahead of the game. I have heard stories of people waiting 3 months for a response.

  3. Administrator Says:
    May 4th, 2006 at 11:54 am

    Sorry, Gary, but for some reason the link was not live when we posted. It’s fixed now. As for your second question, you’ll see at the bottom of the post that we say the at present the search box is not monetized but that we are working on it.

    Thanks!

    M2 — Head Blog Guy

  4. kkobashi Says:
    May 4th, 2006 at 1:09 pm

    Nice job guys. I put it in my site and it works well - makes it look more professional. The web site search results are much better than my own CMS’s search results. Its even better and more relevant than Google’s. I’m more than happy to have Yahoo! as a brand on my site and was waiting a long time for this. Thank you!

  5. Webhosting Says:
    May 5th, 2006 at 8:02 am

    Any idea on the time frame of monetizing the Yahoo search box? I’m really looking forward to this aspect of YPN and think that it will raise my sites income levels quite a bit. I did really well with the A*sense version, and this was the only drawback I saw when switching my sites over to YPN.

    Also, is there any chance that YPN is developing an inline contextual version similar to Kontera? It would be awesome to have that option as well.

    Thanks,
    C. Crawford
    http://www.affiliatewebsitedesign.com

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