Another Wednesday has come upon us which means it is time for the weekly installment of Widget Wednesday.  If you missed last week, we covered the Local Posts Widget.  We talked about how it categorized your posts and also helped to Search Widgetbuild your SEO.  This week we are going to discuss the Search Widget. 

What is the Search Widget? The search widget is probably one of the more powerful widgets available for an outside blog and also one of the most easiest to grasp.  As many of you may recall, I wrote a few weeks back, how the ActiveRain Search Button could save you thousands.  Well, the search widget may not save you thousands, but it can easily help you make thousands!  

So how does it work?  The search widget is a Google Powered search engine that allows viewers of your blog to search for the keyword terms they are interested in.  It will display the results to them as if they were doing a regular google search.  The big difference is that it will only show results from your domain!  How cool is that!?!  So, for example, if someone stumbles upon my blog, http://myrtlebeachhomesblog.com and they are interested in purchasing a home in a community called, The Farm at Carolina Forest, the search brings up only posts that have been published by my blog.

If you remember me mentioning how the Local Posts Widget adds layers to your Outside Blog by categorizing and giving each post a unique domain to help increase SEO.  Well as you add that widget and some others you can easily create some great searches for people.  My search above brought back 241 results!

Search Results

So what are you waiting for?  Go add this Widget today! if you have not set up your Outside Blog yet, go do it now!  If you are not sure how to set up an ActiveBlog, as usual, Brad has written a tutorial here.

 

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38 Comments on Widget Wednesday~ Tips to enhance your Outside Blog ¡Part Deux!

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MAY
07
2009
1,419,798 Points 52 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

"The big difference is that it will only show results from your domain!" Not entirely true. For example, if you search for "Myrtle Beach condos" on your blog, the results contain Sponsored Links at the top of the page and in the right column. This widget could potentially send traffic away from your blog ... and directly to your competitor.
1:28am • #19

Thanks, Jeremy... I had the Google Search widget up, but, did not realize that it limited the search to my blog... this is fantastic!  ps- I followed you on Twitter!
6:21am • #20
563,876 Points 17 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Jeremy - ok, I  am finally going to get my outside blog going, thanks for this tip, I will be implementing it.
6:25am • #21
519,684 Points 111 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

John- ok, not sure why yours only brings up 219.  Mine today brought up 238.  I believe it is due to Google constantly indexing and re-indexing.  Here is my latest search results.  As for your second comment about sponsored posts & also filtering the results.  I don't believe there is a way at this time to get into the coding and change it to be more unique.  Unfortunately the sponsored posts will come up, but they are also there when a consumer does a search on google.  Hopefully though, most understand that they are sponsored and don't click off to them.  If they don't the difference on the search they see in comparison to normal google is that all the material is straight from your blog.  Not you, competing with 240 other agents that wrote something or have some sort of info on the same subject.  Also, for your consumers that you want to give an address to begin their searches on communities, you can give that address in confidence that they will be searching your material.
7:39am • #22
320,583 Points 5 Featured Posts Outside Blog

No that's a widget I can wrap my blog around. Limiting the search to my blog huh? Thanks Jeremy that makes a good tip!
7:50am • #23
519,684 Points 111 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Missy- Who is Mr. Blanchard? LOL
8:25am • #24
179,056 Points 13 Featured Posts

Wow, very cool.

If ever any tool added to the "stickiness" of a site, it sounds like this one would be it.
8:44am • #25
260,977 Points 10 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Jeremy, great tip. I will be putting this on my outside blog and our standalone blog!
8:46am • #26
260,977 Points 10 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Jeremy - Is this widget available for us as well to use on our sites that we have aside from ActiveRain? I have already activated it on my outside blog but I'd love to put something like this on greatnevadahomes.com. Thanks.
9:01am • #27
1,360,907 Points 93 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

I had put it on my first outside blog but missed it on the second. After reading this yesterday I looked.

I used to have a Google search on my ActiveRain blog but it stopped working right at some point so I removed it.  Cheryl Johnson shared directions long ago. 
10:38am • #28
1,116,433 Points 117 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Hmmm sounds easy enough.  30 seconds ok.  Thanks so much!

Question:  If my blog isn't developed enough it won't bring much up yet about differene areas ....related to my blog, rigth?
11:50am • #29
878,969 Points 75 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Jeremy it would be fantastic if you guys could get the mybloglog tracking widget for the outside blogs. Any update on that?
1:40pm • #30
MAY
08
2009
381,187 Points 2 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp

OK Jeremy I am going to sign up next week for the outside blog.  I have been neglecting my active rain account to much lately.
12:50pm • #31
519,684 Points 111 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

John- if you need any help with it, do not hesitate to call me.

Bill- I am not sure where that is in the plans.

Anna- As you write more comment, it will bring more search results to your Blog.

Christianne- I am not sure if there is a place you can grab this widget for your other sites.
1:53pm • #32
JUL
18
2009
170,755 Points 2 Featured Posts

Jeremy - Where is it exactly that you are putting all these widgets.  Is this where you would put the code in your settings in order to see the widgets in the right margin of your blog?
2:12am • #33
MAR
20
2010

I have this widget on my outside blog.  I'm wondering if it's possible to set it up on a wordpress page?  I'd love to have something more google-ish than generic for a search on my wordpress.  Let me know!  Thanks -- Angie
6:32pm • #34
APR
12
2011
872,774 Points 47 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Jeremy, your tips are the bomb! Thanks for making setting up the outside blog such a snap~!

Sharon
9:53pm • #35
AUG
08
2011
Such a deep aswner! GD&RVVF
Mimosa
1:19pm • #36
SEP
22
2011
Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp

sounds like a great tool.  Now I just have to learn how.  I will check out Brad's tutorial.
7:30am • #37
JAN
20
2012
206,832 Points 1 Featured Post Outside Blog

Thanks for the tip Jeremy!  So much to learn and implement.
12:27am • #38

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