Adding a Search Box to your site

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A search box that searches your site makes it much easier for visitors to find what they're looking for. One thing about people surfing the web is that they are very impatient. They want fast loading pages, easy navigation, and to find things quickly. Even if you have the most nicely deisnged website o­n the internet, surfers will not be able to locate all of your information o­n your home page. If they can find all of your site's information o­n the home page they'll be very disappointed when they surf your site! This is why it's a must to have a search box o­n your website. o­n my site I've found that 10-15% of my visitors use it when they enter the site for the first time. Maybe they're looking for something that's in an article that's not o­n your home page. If you don't have a search box, they'll exit without ever knowing that your website had the content to help them. A great service for putting a search box o­n your website is called SiteMiner. It's very easy to set up and just requires a small piece of code that you cut and paste o­n to your website to make your own personal search box. You can re-index the site as often as you want. There's also a statistics page that shows you what each visitors searched for when they use the search box. Click Here to learn more about SiteMiner. Did you know that you can offer to your site's visitors the very same powerful search features that Google offers to their own visitors, when they search the Web? If you'd like to install Google's free site search at your own site, click and follow their instructions. It's very easy to install the search box... Please Click if you like this on google plus.