How to create Google custom search for your website and organization

Google has become a part of our life, on laptop, pc or on our mobile phones we search the web using Google’s search engine, we also use Google’s products frequently, the reason why Google has become so popular is its ability to grab the new features according to the needs of the users. Similarly it has blessed us with Google custom search, using which you can search through few websites (selective search), you can also give your name to the search which looks cool and you can make it your home page too, some big companies are using Google’s this incredible service with enhanced features within their organization.

       Steps to follow to make your own search engine

• Open google.co.in and search “Google custom search” or go directly to the url -https://www.google.co.in/cse.

  

  search google custom search
  
  
  

• Sign in to Google Custom Search Engine using your Google Account’s credentials.

  

  Then sign in to custom search engine

• Click on New Search Engine.

  

  click new search engine

• Now First of all you have to enter names of those sites or a single site that you want to search, it means the search engine will search results containing your search keywords from only those sites.

  

  Enter sites to search

• Now down there you can select a language for your search engine, you can put a name of your search engine.
• With advanced options you can restrict some schemas from being appeared in your search results that means those search results containing the keywords that you will put in these boxes will not appear in your search results.

  

  Enter sites to search advanced options

• Now you can press the create button to create your custom search engine.

  

  google custom search success page

At the success page you will see three buttons named as –receive code, public url, control panel. By clicking on the receive code button you can get the code to put it on your website or blog as I put one on my blog, by clicking on the public url button you will get the url that you can give others, so that they can make your custom search engine their home page and with the third button named as control panel you can go to the additional settings (control panel) to set it.

Here you can put the name, description, turn on image search and speech input, get search engine id, get public url and receive code to put it on your website or blog, additionally you can upgrade for commercial version which is exclusively made for companies and big organizations.

Edit settings of google custom search engine

That‘s not the end I still haven’t told you about an feature and that is search engine keywords, remember this is the ultimate way to get more filtered results, if you will enter a keyword here, in that case your search engine will show more related results, I leave it to be tested by you.

      Benefits of adding custom search on your website

                        There are benefits of adding your custom search engine on your website, which is specially made for searching your website and those are –

                    User will spend more time on your site by searching, because he will get his desired result immediately, which was very difficult before adding this custom search on your website. The main benefit of this is the bounce rate will be reduced very soon after adding this, which is very important in increasing your website’s PR.