Hello Sir,

Thank you for the information you have helped me alot. I just wanted to ask 1 question. In my blog, where do I go to create a new page?

Thank you very much!

Vidal Aponte

Go to your WordPress Dashboard and select “Write”, the choose to write a new page instead of a new post.

Hi,
I folloed all steps as you explained, But while testing the same I am getting 404 error page. what could be the probable causes?

Hi George,

Make sure that step 4 and step 7 uses the same page. The most likely cause of your 404 error is that the permalink to your search results page is different from the one you specified in Step 4.

Hello Brian my name is maro. I commenting because I want to know if you could do a commentaries for us on iPod items that we have. Please write to me as soon as possible. Thank you!!!

Actually what I meant with the comment above was if you could do reviews. E-mail me…

Hi,

Thanks for your article. I just ran into the problem that I can’t override the searchbox width of 795.

i have tried to do it by hand, but no avail.

i normally use firefox, but i managed to slip through with 500 px width on one occasion only.

Strange – anyone else experience the same thing?

Anyone else find a work-around?

cheers – thanks again!

GJ

I think I just answered my own question….

After some mucking about, I found that 795px is the minimum if you want ads on Top AND Right.

I tried Top and Bottom and 500px worked just fine…

Glad you worked it out and thanks for sharing the solution.

Hey Brian
Nice tutorial. Actually I just wrote a post a cpl of days ago telling ppl about how to add adsense for search to 404 pages here:
http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2008/11/06/make-money-out-of-nothing-add-google-adsense-for-search-to-your-404-page.html

But your way of telling things is quite easy to follow. Will link to your post from mine.

Great idea! After a hack attempt on my blog where the hacker entered a malformed sql query into the WP search box I looked for other search ideas. The bug that allowed these hacks was fixed long ago but I felt uneasy that people were still trying. This idea allowed me to remove the WP search widget and monetize at the same time.

Thanks again!

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Hi Brian,
I successfully put Adsense for Search on my Travel Blog here: http://safaritosuccess.com/travelblog. So I got brave and tried to put in on my pet blog, and when I test with the few simple posts on my blog, the key words I use, which I know are in the posts, are not pulling any of my posts up on the search results. Can you advise?
I love your tutorial style. Very easy to follow. I am learning from you sir. Prosperous Blessings, VivBounty

Chances are, Google has not yet indexed all your pages if its a new blog. Two things you can do:
1: do a site search on Google by typing “site:www.yourpetblog.com” (enter your pet blog url) and see what pages are indexed by Google.
2: submit you sitemap to Google using the Google Webmaster tools

Hope that helps.

This is great brian wong .. you help me and save my time, I have already setup a adsense ads but dont know how to setup search box. very informative for adsense user like me.

Thanks so much, Brian. I wil take your kind advice and let you know what happens. Need to ammend some things before generating sitemap.

Kindest Regards
VivBounty

I followed your very well explained directions, Brian but I’m afraid I fell at the final hurdle which was: “You should update your .htaccess now” after I changed the permalinks.

I’m a bit of a newbie so I have quite a bit of work to do before I can avail of your advice.

Thanks anyhow.

hi, I’ve followed the above but I can’t get it working. is there any php page or java script that i need to add besides the Search Box Code ,
Search Result code?

I’ve also posted my problem in http://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-search-button-showing-400-bad-request-illegal-filename?replies=1

hope u can advice. thanks

@gabor. Thanks so much for figuring this out. I mucked around with it for ages unable to figure out how to add it to my site…but changing where the ads display fixed it.

good information you

write it very clean. I am very lucky to get this tips from you.

Thanks :)
It helped.

Nice tips,,, thank you,,, hope i will get more earning with google

This was extremely helpful. I have been trying to add the adsense for search box to my blog without much luck, just some technical issues, minor, but beyond me. Your tutorial was perfect. Too bad google couldn’t make it this easy.

Great Post! Really great post.

I was searching all day to find an easy way for this, and I couldn’t find any past which is more helpful than this one.

hello..thanks..After i read this freat post of your blog i finally can add adsense for search in my blog..My adsense earning is still very small..I hope by adding adsense for search my earning will increase significant..:)
Regards..

You should be responsible and caution people about doing this. Against the Google Adsense terms of service. You can only (last time I checked 2 months ago) have 1 link unit or 1 adsense for search on the search result page. I bet you all these people have regular ads all over the sidebar etc on the search results page. That’s a no no. You should caution people. It’s irresponsible to do otherwise.

I am trying to put the HTML code for Adsense Search, not Adsense content, on my WordPress website/blog. where do I put it? I pasted it to my primary widget area howver I don’t see it on my website. What do I do!?

There’s two parts – the code fo the search box and the second part is the code for the results page. To put the search results inside your blog theme, then create a new page in WordPress and inside the content area, paste the HTML code fo the Adsense results.

hello, i just want to add adsense custom search on my blog and fortunately read your tutorial about it. thanks. but how do we test it?

Just follow the instructions in the post above. Create your adsense for search code, add the code for the search bar somewhere on your blog (normally the sidebar or header), add the results page code on a new blog page. To test, just type something in the search box to see the results.

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