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live.com search integration
By Nick Hodge | September 8, 2007
Yes, at the present time have Google adsense on my blog. It barely pays for the hosting of www.nickhodge.com. Virtually no revenue stems from the embedded Google Search.
Search is important as I've just destroyed my old navigation hierarchy in the transition from the old CMS to a 100% Wordpress system.
Time to change my search provider.
Over to http://dev.live.com/livesearch/ and specifically http://search.live.com/siteowner.
Tweak my searchform in Wordpress. Done.
There were two edits required in the HTML snippet: one to insert a "code page" (for next time: putting in obscure numbers is not a good UX!) and my site URL.
From random thought to implementation: 3 minutes.
Topics: live.com, technology |
September 11th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Don't suppose you want to write a little article on how you did that for new community site http://www.viawindowslive.com ?
September 11th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Well done Nick...next get rid of Google Adsense...understand we dont have an alternative yet...but even Yahoo Panama is a better option..
September 11th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Harveys-- all in good time, all in good time :). I must say live.com search is now better than google. this has occured in the last month.
September 11th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Bronwen-- can you give me a week? I'd love to contribute.
September 11th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
No probs..just register on the site and goto contribute to list the name of the article etc. and we'll set you up a page...you add your content...then we'll checkit and release it for public consumption