Google Site Search & SEO benefits

[kenno69]

Hi all - I've had a comb through the forums here but can't seem to find any updates on whether there any tangible benefits for using Google Site Search. We're currently exploring using Lucene, Oracle Endeca, & Google Site Search - but from what I've read so far there are no quantifiable benefits for choose Google over any others.

Everything I've read is rumor-mill...anybody have experience or references?

Thanks in advance!

[BiswaM22]

Hi,

The Google Site Search certainly has some tangible benefits if you how to use it optimally, As you know, people often use the site search option to find out the stuffs they are looking for within a website rather than link based exploring. So, you can use the Google site search to analyse the search behaviour pattern of your visitors. In a way, it provides you a better idea about the perception that the visitors coming to your website have had in their minds.

You can also get a fair bit of idea about what exactly your visitors are looking fro when they land at your website. However, you need to make certain changes to your analytics code settings so that data could be gathered in a report format as per your liking.

So, from a SEO point of view this feature is certainly has got its own benefit.

Cheers..

[DennisSeymour]

Hi!

I have to be honest and not sugar coat this, I have never seen any direct SEO benefit from using site search...

You can use the data you get from it, but it's probably not the tangible benefit you are looking for.