I decided it was time to add a search feature to the blog and after a little research I found that Google provides a couple of widgets you can easily add to any site and make it search enabled within minutes.
The first widget adds the search box which you can place anywhere on all pages of your website while the second is for the results which you’ll add to a single page. It’s better to leave this one in a page on its own since it will take up considerable screen space.
Google offers two versions of the custom search, one that costs $100 per year and a free version where they’ll display some ads on your website.
While at it I also added a few AdSense banners, mostly because I’ve always felt a little curiosity about this advertisement medium and its effectiveness. Now I’ll be able to experience how effective it actually is.
To finish the tweaking session I also changed the blog RSS feed through FeedBurner so I can monitor its the usage statistics. I setup the server to redirect the visitors from the old feed url to the new one but please drop me a line if you stop getting my posts in your feed reader.
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